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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v7 6/9] media: tegra: Add Tegra210 Video input driver
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tegra-video module unload->load and tegra-video driver unbind->bind are 
good.

Will have v8 to switch to use devm_kzalloc for vi/csi and will revisit
direct host1x client driver unbind->bind later.

Thanks

Sowjanya


On 4/15/20 4:28 PM, Sowjanya Komatineni wrote:
> Sorry please ignore.
>
> We can't free vi during v4l2 device release as when no device nodes
> are opened, vi free happens right away during host1x_video_remove.
>
> With this tegra-video driver unbind ->bind will not work as vi memory
> allocated during vi_probe gets freed during v4l2 device release so
> during bind init() callback execution will crash as vi got freed while
> vi driver is still bound to device.
>
> Will wait for Hans/Thierry comments as I see dependency depending on
> where unbind/bind happens.
>
>
> On 4/15/20 4:08 PM, Sowjanya Komatineni wrote:
>> With minor change of not using vi reference after
>> host1x_client_unregister and freeing vi during v4l2 device release
>> works.
>>
>> For csi, we can use devm_kzalloc for now untill we decide later if we
>> want to expose async subdev nodes during sensor support.
>>
>> Will have this fix in v8 with a comment in vi_remove to make sure not
>> to use vi reference after host1x_client_unregister.
>>
>> Will test more and will release v8 with above fix to allow direct
>> host1x client driver unbind.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> sowjanya
>>
>>
>> On 4/15/20 12:51 PM, Sowjanya Komatineni wrote:
>>>
>>> On 4/15/20 12:21 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>>> External email: Use caution opening links or attachments
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 15.04.2020 21:53, Sowjanya Komatineni пишет:
>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>>>> Have you tried to test this driver under KASAN? I suspect that
>>>>>>>>>>> you just
>>>>>>>>>>> masked the problem, instead of fixing it.
>>>>> Tested with kmemleak scan and did not see any memory leaks
>>>> You should get use-after-free and not memleak.
>>> I don't see use-after-free bugs during the testing.
>>>
>>> But as mentioned when direct vi/csi client driver unbind happens
>>> while video device node is kept opened, vi driver remove will free
>>> vi structure memory but actual video device memory which is part of
>>> channels remains but list head gets lost when vi structure is freed.
>>>
>>> So, when device node is released and executes release callback as
>>> list head is lost it can't free allocated channels which is not good.
>>>
>>> This happens only with direct host1x client vi/csi driver unbind.
>>>
>>> Need to find better place to free host1x client driver data
>>> structure to allow direct client driver unbind->bind.
>>>

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