Hi Sylwester, On Tuesday 27 November 2012 23:54:40 Sylwester Nawrocki wrote: > On 11/25/2012 01:41 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > When subdev registration fails the subdev v4l2_dev field is left to a > > non-NULL value. Later calls to v4l2_device_unregister_subdev() will > > consider the subdev as registered and will module_put() the subdev > > module without any matching module_get(). > > > > Fix this by setting the subdev v4l2_dev field to NULL in > > v4l2_device_register_subdev() when the function fails. > > > > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart<laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com> > > Acked-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawro...@samsung.com>
Thank you. > I'm just wondering whether including this patch in stable kernel releases > could potentially break anything. I don't think it would, the patch only touches error paths, and clearly fixes a bug. So Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org looks like a good idea. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
