Hi Mark, Please, please read this first before posting patches: https://kernelnewbies.org/FirstKernelPatch And don't use insanely long subject lines in your email. This patch is nonsense. As said before, you need to override the release() callback of struct video_device with a tw686x-specific function that frees the dma memory and calls video_device_release() at the end to free the struct video_device itself. This release() callback is called by the V4L2 framework when the last user of the device closes its filehandle, so that's a good point to free all the memory. Doing it earlier (as the current code does) runs the risk that someone might still access that memory, and you don't want that. Regards, Hans On 7/29/19 10:09 PM, Mark Balantzyan wrote: > > Possible inconsistent memory deallocation and/or race conditions were detected specifically with respect to remaining open handles to the video device handled by the tw686x driver. This patch > addresses this by implementing a revised independent instance of the video_device_release function to free the remaining resources and memory where the last open handle(s) is/were closed. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Balantzyan <mbalant3@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/media/pci/tw686x/tw686x-video.c | 15 +++++++++++---- > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/tw686x/tw686x-video.c b/drivers/media/pci/tw686x/tw686x-video.c > index 3a06c000..29e10c85 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/pci/tw686x/tw686x-video.c > +++ b/drivers/media/pci/tw686x/tw686x-video.c > @@ -1151,18 +1151,25 @@ void tw686x_video_irq(struct tw686x_dev *dev, unsigned long requests, > } > } > > +void video_device_release(tw686x_dev *dev) { > + for (int pb = 0; pb < 2; pb++) { > + dev->dma_ops->free(dev->video_channels,pb); > + } > + kfree(dev); > +} > + > void tw686x_video_free(struct tw686x_dev *dev) > { > - unsigned int ch, pb; > + unsigned int ch; > > for (ch = 0; ch < max_channels(dev); ch++) { > struct tw686x_video_channel *vc = &dev->video_channels[ch]; > > video_unregister_device(vc->device); > > - if (dev->dma_ops->free) > - for (pb = 0; pb < 2; pb++) > - dev->dma_ops->free(vc, pb); > + if (dev->dma_ops->free) { > + video_device_release(dev); > + } > } > } >
