Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH next 1/2] media: mtk-mdp: fix video_device_release argument | From | Minghsiu Tsai <> | Date | Mon, 7 Nov 2016 20:47:25 +0800 |
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On Thu, 2016-11-03 at 13:47 +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > On 28/10/16 09:52, Vincent Stehlé wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:23:24PM +0200, Vincent Stehlé wrote: > >> video_device_release() takes a pointer to struct video_device as argument. > >> Fix two call sites where the address of the pointer is passed instead. > > > > Sorry, I messed up: please ignore that "fix". The 0day robot made me > > realize this is indeed not a proper fix. > > > > The issue remains, though: we cannot call video_device_release() on the > > vdev structure member, as this will in turn call kfree(). Most probably, > > vdev needs to be dynamically allocated, or the call to > > video_device_release() dropped completely. > > I prefer that vdev is dynamically allocated. There are known problems with > embedded video_device structs, so allocating it is preferred. > > Minghsiu, can you do that? >
Hi Hans,
I just send the patch for this. https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9415007/
> Regards, > > Hans > > > > > Sorry for the bad patch. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Vincent. > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >
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