Re: [PATCH v2] media: cedrus: Fix missing cleanup in error path

From: Paul Kocialkowski

Date: Thu Apr 09 2026 - 09:27:26 EST


Hi,

On Tue 07 Apr 26, 01:14, Andrey Skvortsov wrote:
> From: Samuel Holland <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> According to the documentation struct v4l2_fh has to be cleaned up with
> v4l2_fh_exit() before being freed. [1]
> Currently there is no actual bug here, when v4l2_fh_exit() isn't called.
> v4l2_fh_exit() in this case only destroys internal mutex. But it may
> change in the future, when v4l2_fh_init/v4l2_fh_exit will be enhanced.
>
> 1. https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/media/v4l2-fh.html

Good catch too, thanks!

Acked-by: Paul Kocialkowski <paulk@xxxxxxxxxxx>

All the best,

Paul

> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Skvortsov <andrej.skvortzov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 50e761516f2b ("media: platform: Add Cedrus VPU decoder driver")
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - remove duplicate 'in-body' From: record
> - add details to commit message
>
> drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> index 6600245dff0e2..1d2130f35fffc 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> @@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ static int cedrus_open(struct file *file)
> err_m2m_release:
> v4l2_m2m_ctx_release(ctx->fh.m2m_ctx);
> err_free:
> + v4l2_fh_exit(&ctx->fh);
> kfree(ctx);
> mutex_unlock(&dev->dev_mutex);
>
> --
> 2.51.0
>

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