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| author | Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> | 2020-08-11 22:59:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-09-10 14:26:05 +0200 |
| commit | 6c11631480e9a0554ae5ee89dc12acaa1f1a93a0 (patch) | |
| tree | 043d6aceb2275cce8ab5524e3001f0f4cb46f8b7 /include/media | |
| parent | 2c61e48d0a19eff9c404e1911ec6c63c555eb0c4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6c11631480e9a0554ae5ee89dc12acaa1f1a93a0.tar.bz2 | |
media: v4l2-async: Document asd allocation requirements
The v4l2_async_notifier_add_subdev() function requires the asd pointer
it receives to be allocated dynamically, but doesn't explicitly say so.
Only one driver out of 13 get its right (atmel-sama5d2-isc.c, but with
memory leaks in the error paths), clearly showing we have an issue.
Update the v4l2_async_notifier_add_subdev() documentation to clearly
state the allocation requirement. Whether this will be enough to avoid
new offending code isn't certain, but it's a good first step
nonetheless.
Fixes: 9ca465312132 ("media: v4l: fwnode: Support generic parsing of graph endpoints in a device")
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/media')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/media/v4l2-async.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-async.h b/include/media/v4l2-async.h index 8319284c93cb..d6e31234826f 100644 --- a/include/media/v4l2-async.h +++ b/include/media/v4l2-async.h @@ -154,8 +154,9 @@ void v4l2_async_notifier_init(struct v4l2_async_notifier *notifier); * @notifier: pointer to &struct v4l2_async_notifier * @asd: pointer to &struct v4l2_async_subdev * - * Call this function before registering a notifier to link the - * provided asd to the notifiers master @asd_list. + * Call this function before registering a notifier to link the provided @asd to + * the notifiers master @asd_list. The @asd must be allocated with k*alloc() as + * it will be freed by the framework when the notifier is destroyed. */ int v4l2_async_notifier_add_subdev(struct v4l2_async_notifier *notifier, struct v4l2_async_subdev *asd); |