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    [media] cx231xx: fix crash after load/unload/load of module · a116a05c
    Thomas Petazzoni authored
    The following sequence of commands was triggering a kernel crash in
    cdev_get():
    
     modprobe cx231xx
     rmmod cx231xx
     modprobe cx231xx
     v4l2grab -n 1
    
    The problem was that cx231xx_usb_disconnect() was not doing anything
    because the test:
    
    	if (!dev->udev)
    		return;
    
    was reached (i.e, dev->udev was NULL).
    
    This is due to the fact that the 'dev' pointer placed as intfdata into
    the usb_interface structure had the wrong value, because
    cx231xx_probe() was doing the usb_set_intfdata() on the wrong
    usb_interface structure. For some reason, cx231xx_probe() was doing
    the following:
    
    static int cx231xx_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
    			     const struct usb_device_id *id)
    {
            struct usb_interface *lif = NULL;
    	[...]
            /* store the current interface */
            lif = interface;
    	[...]
            /* store the interface 0 back */
            lif = udev->actconfig->interface[0];
    	[...]
    	usb_set_intfdata(lif, dev);
    	[...]
    	retval = v4l2_device_register(&interface->dev, &dev->v4l2_dev);
    	[...]
    }
    
    So, the usb_set_intfdata() was done on udev->actconfig->interface[0]
    and not on the 'interface' passed as argument to the ->probe() and
    ->disconnect() hooks. Later on, v4l2_device_register() was
    initializing the intfdata of the correct usb_interface structure as a
    pointer to the v4l2_device structure.
    
    Upon unregistration, the ->disconnect() hook was getting the intfdata
    of the usb_interface passed as argument... and casted it to a 'struct
    cx231xx *' while it was in fact a 'struct v4l2_device *'.
    
    The correct fix seems to just be to set the intfdata on the proper
    interface from the beginning. Now, loading/unloading/reloading the
    driver allows to use the device properly.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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