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[v2,2/3] media: imx: Fix csc/scaler unregister

Message ID 20210104203441.168778-2-ezequiel@collabora.com
State Accepted
Commit 89b14485caa4b7b2eaf70be0064f0978e68ebeee
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Series [v2,1/3] media: imx: Unregister csc/scaler only if registered | expand

Commit Message

Ezequiel Garcia Jan. 4, 2021, 8:34 p.m. UTC
The csc/scaler device private struct is released by
ipu_csc_scaler_video_device_release(), which can be called
by video_unregister_device() if there are no users
of the underlying struct video device.

Therefore, the mutex can't be held when calling
video_unregister_device() as its memory may be freed
by it, leading to a kernel oops.

Fortunately, the fix is quite simple as no locking
is needed when calling video_unregister_device(): v4l2-core
already has its own internal locking, and the structures
are also properly refcounted.

Fixes: a8ef0488cc59 ("media: imx: add csc/scaler mem2mem device")
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
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 drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-csc-scaler.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-csc-scaler.c b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-csc-scaler.c
index fab1155a5958..63a0204502a8 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-csc-scaler.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-csc-scaler.c
@@ -869,11 +869,7 @@  void imx_media_csc_scaler_device_unregister(struct imx_media_video_dev *vdev)
 	struct ipu_csc_scaler_priv *priv = vdev_to_priv(vdev);
 	struct video_device *vfd = priv->vdev.vfd;
 
-	mutex_lock(&priv->mutex);
-
 	video_unregister_device(vfd);
-
-	mutex_unlock(&priv->mutex);
 }
 
 struct imx_media_video_dev *