Since commit b4028437876866aba4747a655ede00f892089e14 the 'driver_data' field resides in device's struct device_private which may be allocated by dev_set_drvdata() if device_private struct was not allocated previously. dev_set_drvdata() is used in video_set_drvdata() to set the driver's private data pointer in v4l2 drivers. Setting the private data _before_ registering the v4l2 device results in a memory leak since __video_register_device() also calls video_set_drvdata(), but after zeroing the device structure. Thus, the reference to the previously allocated device_private struct goes lost and a new device_private will be allocated. All v4l drivers which call video_set_drvdata() _before_ calling video_register_device() are affected. The patch fixes __video_register_device() to preserve previously allocated device_private reference. Caught by kmemleak. Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c index 0ca7ec9..9e89bf6 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ static int __video_register_device(struct video_device *vdev, int type, int nr, int minor_offset = 0; int minor_cnt = VIDEO_NUM_DEVICES; const char *name_base; - void *priv = video_get_drvdata(vdev); + void *priv = vdev->dev.p; /* A minor value of -1 marks this video device as never having been registered */ @@ -536,9 +536,9 @@ static int __video_register_device(struct video_device *vdev, int type, int nr, /* Part 4: register the device with sysfs */ memset(&vdev->dev, 0, sizeof(vdev->dev)); - /* The memset above cleared the device's drvdata, so + /* The memset above cleared the device's device_private, so put back the copy we made earlier. */ - video_set_drvdata(vdev, priv); + vdev->dev.p = priv; vdev->dev.class = &video_class; vdev->dev.devt = MKDEV(VIDEO_MAJOR, vdev->minor); if (vdev->parent) -- 1.7.0.4 -- 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
