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[1/1] v4l: Do not allow re-registering sub-devices

Message ID 1470910717-18575-1-git-send-email-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Sakari Ailus Aug. 11, 2016, 10:18 a.m. UTC
Albeit not prohibited explicitly, re-registering sub-devices generated a
big, loud warning which quite likely soon was followed by a crash. What
followed was re-initialising a media entity, driver's registered() callback
being called and re-adding a list entry to a list.

Prevent this by returning an error if a sub-device is already registered.

Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c
index 06fa5f1..6136571 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c
@@ -160,12 +160,9 @@  int v4l2_device_register_subdev(struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev,
 	int err;
 
 	/* Check for valid input */
-	if (v4l2_dev == NULL || sd == NULL || !sd->name[0])
+	if (!v4l2_dev || sd->v4l2_dev || !sd || !sd->name[0])
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	/* Warn if we apparently re-register a subdev */
-	WARN_ON(sd->v4l2_dev != NULL);
-
 	/*
 	 * The reason to acquire the module here is to avoid unloading
 	 * a module of sub-device which is registered to a media