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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 1/3] [media] media-device: check before unregister if mdev was registered
Em Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:36:27 -0700
Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> escreveu:

> On 12/11/2015 03:57 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> > Most media functions that unregister, check if the corresponding register
> > function succeed before. So these functions can safely be called even if a
> > registration was never made or the component as already been unregistered.
> >
> > Add the same check to media_device_unregister() function for consistency.
> >
> > This will also allow to split the media_device_register() function in an
> > initialization and registration functions without the need to change the
> > generic cleanup functions and error code paths for all the media drivers.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
> > Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Changes in v5: None
> > Changes in v4: None
> > Changes in v3: None
> > Changes in v2:
> > - Reword the documentation for media_device_unregister(). Suggested by Sakari.
> > - Added Sakari's Acked-by tag for patch #1.
> >
> > drivers/media/media-device.c | 6 ++++++
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/media-device.c b/drivers/media/media-device.c
> > index c12481c753a0..11c1c7383361 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/media-device.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/media-device.c
> > @@ -577,6 +577,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__media_device_register);
> > * media_device_unregister - unregister a media device
> > * @mdev: The media device
> > *
> > + * It is safe to call this function on an unregistered
> > + * (but initialised) media device.
> > */
> > void media_device_unregister(struct media_device *mdev)
> > {
> > @@ -584,6 +586,10 @@ void media_device_unregister(struct media_device *mdev)
> > struct media_entity *next;
> > struct media_interface *intf, *tmp_intf;
> >
> > + /* Check if mdev was ever registered at all */
> > + if (!media_devnode_is_registered(&mdev->devnode))
> > + return;
>
> This is a good check, however, this check will not prevent
> media_device_unregister() from getting run twice by two
> different drivers. i.e media_devnode gets unregistered
> towards the end of at the end of media_device_unregister().
>
> In an example case, if bridge driver and snd-usb-aduio both
> call media_device_unregister(), this check won't help prevent
> media_device_unregister() being done only once. I think we
> need a different state variable in struct media_device
> to ensure unregister is done only once.

True. We need move the spin_lock() code to be called before
calling media_device_is_registered().

I'm sending such patches.

Thanks for reporting it.

Regards,
Mauro



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