[PATCH v2] media: cedrus: Fix failure to clean up hardware on probe failure
Paul Kocialkowski
paulk at sys-base.io
Thu Apr 9 06:10:42 PDT 2026
Hi,
On Tue 07 Apr 26, 01:14, Andrey Skvortsov wrote:
> From: Samuel Holland <samuel at sholland.org>
>
> If V4L2 device fails to register, then SRAM still be claimed and as a
> result driver will not be able to probe again.
>
> cedrus 1c0e000.video-codec: Failed to claim SRAM
> cedrus 1c0e000.video-codec: Failed to probe hardware
> cedrus 1c0e000.video-codec: probe with driver cedrus failed with error -16
>
> cedrus_hw_remove undoes everything that was previously done by
> cedrus_hw_probe, such as disabling runtime power management and
> releasing the claimed SRAM and reserved memory region.
Good catch, thanks for the patch!
Acked-by: Paul Kocialkowski <paulk at sys-base.io>
Note that I (still) plan to rework the architecture of this driver in the
future but such fixes are definitely welcome in the meantime.
All the best,
Paul
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel at sholland.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Skvortsov <andrej.skvortzov at gmail.com>
> Fixes: 50e761516f2b ("media: platform: Add Cedrus VPU decoder driver")
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
> - remove duplicate 'in-body' From: record
> - add more technical details to commit message
>
> drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> index 1d2130f35fffc..ee0e286add67d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
> @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ static int cedrus_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> ret = v4l2_device_register(&pdev->dev, &dev->v4l2_dev);
> if (ret) {
> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to register V4L2 device\n");
> - return ret;
> + goto err_hw;
> }
>
> vfd = &dev->vfd;
> @@ -538,6 +538,8 @@ static int cedrus_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> v4l2_m2m_release(dev->m2m_dev);
> err_v4l2:
> v4l2_device_unregister(&dev->v4l2_dev);
> +err_hw:
> + cedrus_hw_remove(dev);
>
> return ret;
> }
> --
> 2.51.0
>
--
Paul Kocialkowski,
Independent contractor - sys-base - https://www.sys-base.io/
Free software developer - https://www.paulk.fr/
Expert in multimedia, graphics and embedded hardware support with Linux.
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