6.16-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Sakari Ailus sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com
commit 5a0400aca5fa7c6b8ba456c311a460e733571c88 upstream.
It's a common pattern in drivers to free the control handler's resources and then return the handler's error code on drivers' error handling paths. Alas, the v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() function also zeroes the error field, effectively indicating successful return to the caller.
There's no apparent need to touch the error field while releasing the control handler's resources and cleaning up stale pointers. Not touching the handler's error field is a more certain way to address this problem than changing all the users, in which case the pattern would be likely to re-emerge in new drivers.
Do just that, don't touch the control handler's error field in v4l2_ctrl_handler_free().
Fixes: 0996517cf8ea ("V4L/DVB: v4l2: Add new control handling framework") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil hverkuil@xs4all.nl Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil hverkuil@xs4all.nl Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls-core.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls-core.c @@ -1661,7 +1661,6 @@ void v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(struct v4l2_ kvfree(hdl->buckets); hdl->buckets = NULL; hdl->cached = NULL; - hdl->error = 0; mutex_unlock(hdl->lock); mutex_destroy(&hdl->_lock); }