The driver doesn't unregister the video device node when the driver is removed, this keeps video device nodes that makes the machine to crash with a NULL pointer dereference when nodes are attempted to be opened: [ 36.530006] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address bf1f8200 [ 36.535985] pgd = edbbc000 [ 36.538486] [bf1f8200] *pgd=6d99a811, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000 [ 36.544727] Internal error: Oops: 7 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM [ 36.550016] Modules linked in: s5p_jpeg s5p_mfc v4l2_mem2mem videobuf2_dma_contig [ 36.566303] CPU: 6 PID: 533 Comm: v4l2-ctl Not tainted 4.8.0 [ 36.574466] Hardware name: SAMSUNG EXYNOS (Flattened Device Tree) [ 36.580526] task: ee3cc600 task.stack: ed626000 [ 36.585046] PC is at try_module_get+0x1c/0xac [ 36.589364] LR is at try_module_get+0x1c/0xac [ 36.593698] pc : [<c0187a60>] lr : [<c0187a60>] psr: 80070013 [ 36.593698] sp : ed627de0 ip : a0070013 fp : 00000000 [ 36.605156] r10: 00000002 r9 : ed627ed0 r8 : 00000000 [ 36.610331] r7 : c01e5f14 r6 : ed57be00 r5 : bf1f8200 r4 : bf1f8200 [ 36.616834] r3 : 00000002 r2 : 00000002 r1 : 01930192 r0 : 00000001 .. [ 36.785004] [<c0187a60>] (try_module_get) from [<c01e5c10>] (cdev_get+0x1c/0x4c) [ 36.792362] [<c01e5c10>] (cdev_get) from [<c01e5f40>] (chrdev_open+0x2c/0x178) [ 36.799555] [<c01e5f40>] (chrdev_open) from [<c01df5d4>] (do_dentry_open+0x1e0/0x300) [ 36.807360] [<c01df5d4>] (do_dentry_open) from [<c01eecdc>] (path_openat+0x35c/0xf58) [ 36.815154] [<c01eecdc>] (path_openat) from [<c01f0668>] (do_filp_open+0x5c/0xc0) [ 36.822606] [<c01f0668>] (do_filp_open) from [<c01e09ac>] (do_sys_open+0x10c/0x1bc) [ 36.830235] [<c01e09ac>] (do_sys_open) from [<c01078c0>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x3c) [ 36.837942] Code: 0a00001c e1a04000 e3a00001 ebfec92d (e5943000) Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-m2m.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-m2m.c b/drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-m2m.c index a1cac52ea230..c8c0bcec35ed 100644 --- a/drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-m2m.c +++ b/drivers/media/platform/exynos-gsc/gsc-m2m.c @@ -781,6 +781,8 @@ err_m2m_release: void gsc_unregister_m2m_device(struct gsc_dev *gsc) { - if (gsc) + if (gsc) { v4l2_m2m_release(gsc->m2m.m2m_dev); + video_unregister_device(&gsc->vdev); + } } -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html