[PATCH v2 0/3] media: sun4i-csi: fix probe/streaming lifecycle bugs

Cong Nguyen congnt264 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 9 23:25:18 PDT 2026


This series fixes three independent, pre-existing lifecycle bugs in the
sun4i-csi driver, all present since the driver was added (577bbf23b758):

  1/3 - notify_complete() left the video device and bridge subdev
        registered if a later step failed, so /dev/videoX stayed live over
        the freed devm context.
  2/3 - the frame-done interrupt was never disabled on the stop path, so a
        late IRQ could touch a gated block after runtime suspend.
  3/3 - the async notifier had no .unbind, so the cached source subdev
        pointer dangled after the sensor unbound.

Changes in v2:
  - 2/3: read CSI_INT_EN_REG back after disabling it to flush the posted
    write before synchronize_irq() (Sashiko AI review).
  - 2/3: apply the same interrupt teardown to the start_streaming() error
    path (err_disable_device), which had the identical defect - the IRQ is
    enabled and capture started before the s_stream call that can fail.
    Both paths now share a new sun4i_csi_disable_irq() helper.
  - 3/3: only clear csi->src_subdev in .unbind; drop the
    vb2_video_unregister_device() call. Since notify_complete() registers
    the video device, unregistering it on unbind would make it re-register
    an already-unregistered embedded video_device on a subsequent re-bind.
    Clearing the cached pointer alone prevents the use-after-free.
  - No functional changes to 1/3.

Two further pre-existing issues raised in review are not addressed here, as
they are out of scope for these fixes: the embedded video_device using
video_device_release_empty in a devm-allocated struct (a broader lifetime
rework), and notify_complete() not being re-bind safe (it re-registers the
bridge subdev, which needs a larger restructuring of the notifier flow).

Cong Nguyen (3):
  media: sun4i-csi: fix video device and subdev leak in
    notify_complete()
  media: sun4i-csi: disable interrupts when stopping streaming
  media: sun4i-csi: add notifier unbind callback to drop the source
    subdev

 .../platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/sun4i_csi.c      | 25 +++++++++++++++++--
 .../platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/sun4i_csi.h      |  1 +
 .../platform/sunxi/sun4i-csi/sun4i_dma.c      | 20 +++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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