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

From: Paul Kocialkowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 15:15:21 +0200

Hi,

On Tue 07 Apr 26, 01:14, Andrey Skvortsov wrote:
> From: Samuel Holland <[email-masked]>
> 
> 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 <[email-masked]>

All the best,

Paul

> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Skvortsov <[email-masked]>
> 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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