Re: [PATCH next 1/2] media: mtk-mdp: fix video_device_release argument

From: Hans Verkuil
Date: Thu Nov 03 2016 - 08:47:52 EST


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?

Regards,

Hans


Sorry for the bad patch.

Best regards,

Vincent.
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