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[media] v4l2-dev: don't memset video_device.dev 

Zeroing video_device.dev causes a memory leak if video_set_drvdata
was called before video_register_device was called. video_set_drvdata
calls dev_set_drvdata which allocates video_device.dev.p.

memsetting this will prevent freeing of that memory.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Hans Verkuil 2010-12-31 11:47:23 -03:00 committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab
parent 6ce3ced4f7
commit 46b633779b
1 changed files with 4 additions and 5 deletions
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drivers/media/video/v4l2-dev.c
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@ -419,6 +419,10 @@ static int get_index(struct video_device *vdev)
* The registration code assigns minor numbers and device node numbers
* based on the requested type and registers the new device node with
* the kernel.
*
* This function assumes that struct video_device was zeroed when it
* was allocated and does not contain any stale date.
*
* An error is returned if no free minor or device node number could be
* found, or if the registration of the device node failed.
*
@ -440,7 +444,6 @@ 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 = vdev->dev.p;
/* A minor value of -1 marks this video device as never
having been registered */
@ -559,10 +562,6 @@ 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 device_private, so
put back the copy we made earlier. */
vdev->dev.p = priv;
vdev->dev.class = &video_class;
vdev->dev.devt = MKDEV(VIDEO_MAJOR, vdev->minor);
if (vdev->parent)