RE: [PATCH] media: videobuf2: fix kernel panic due to missing assign NULL to alloc_ctx

2012-06-11 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
title. > > Please correct me if I have something wrong. > > > Thanks > Albert Wang > 86-21-61092656 > -Original Message- > From: Guennadi Liakhovetski [mailto:g.liakhovet...@gmx.de] > Sent: Monday, 11 June, 2012 17:21 > To: Albert Wang > Cc: Laurent Pi

RE: [PATCH] media: videobuf2: fix kernel panic due to missing assign NULL to alloc_ctx

2012-06-11 Thread Albert Wang
sciak.com; linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: [PATCH] media: videobuf2: fix kernel panic due to missing assign NULL to alloc_ctx Hi Albert On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Albert Wang wrote: > Hi, Laurent > > Thanks for your reply! > > We allocated the context when init_videobuf2() whi

RE: [PATCH] media: videobuf2: fix kernel panic due to missing assign NULL to alloc_ctx

2012-06-11 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
sn't affect the caller in any way. Thanks Guennadi > Thanks > Albert Wang > 86-21-61092656 > > -Original Message- > From: Laurent Pinchart [mailto:laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com] > Sent: Monday, 11 June, 2012 16:00 > To: Albert Wang > Cc: pa...@osciak.com; g.

RE: [PATCH] media: videobuf2: fix kernel panic due to missing assign NULL to alloc_ctx

2012-06-11 Thread Albert Wang
ert Wang Cc: pa...@osciak.com; g.liakhovet...@gmx.de; linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: videobuf2: fix kernel panic due to missing assign NULL to alloc_ctx Hi Albert, On Friday 08 June 2012 19:55:11 Albert Wang wrote: > In function vb2_dma_contig_cleanup_ctx(), we only k

Re: [PATCH] media: videobuf2: fix kernel panic due to missing assign NULL to alloc_ctx

2012-06-11 Thread Laurent Pinchart
Hi Albert, On Friday 08 June 2012 19:55:11 Albert Wang wrote: > In function vb2_dma_contig_cleanup_ctx(), we only kfree the alloc_ctx > If we didn't assign NULL to this point after kfree it, > we may encounter the following kernel panic: > > kernel BUG at kernel/cred.c:98! > Unable to han

[PATCH] media: videobuf2: fix kernel panic due to missing assign NULL to alloc_ctx

2012-06-08 Thread Albert Wang
In function vb2_dma_contig_cleanup_ctx(), we only kfree the alloc_ctx If we didn't assign NULL to this point after kfree it, we may encounter the following kernel panic: kernel BUG at kernel/cred.c:98! Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address pgd = c000