On Thursday 17 July 2014 14:53:49 Sakari Ailus wrote: > 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().
Do the cleanup functions support being called multiple times, or do they just support being called on memory that has been zeroed and not further initialized ? The media_entity_cleanup() function supports the latter. -- 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
