Hi Laurent, On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 01:43:09PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > On Tuesday 27 May 2014 16:27:49 Sakari Ailus wrote: > > Calling media_entity_cleanup() on a cleaned-up entity would result into > > double free of the entity->links pointer and likely memory corruption as > > well. > > My first question is, why would anyone do that ? :-)
Because it makes error handling easier. Many cleanup functions work this way, but not media_entity_cleanup(). -- Sakari Ailus e-mail: sakari.ai...@iki.fi XMPP: sai...@retiisi.org.uk -- 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
