On Tuesday 13 February 2007, you wrote: > > > attached find a patch that fixes the problem. > > > Hi, > > Thank you for the quick response. > I think there is a small bug in this; at least I don't see where you > copy over the content of the fops template to the newly allocated piece > of memory... > > Greetings, > Arjan van de Ven
hi arjan, also fixed that issue. my fault, sorry. i updated my repository @ linutv.org accordingly. i will ask mauro to pull changeset b265e2484422 dvbdev: fix illegal re-usage of fileoperations struct from http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~mws/v4l-dvb-fixtree for upstream to kernel., if no more issues appear today. thanks again. marcel
diff -r 667e84e2e762 linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c --- a/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c Tue Feb 13 07:00:55 2007 -0200 +++ b/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c Tue Feb 13 13:44:47 2007 +0100 @@ -211,12 +211,14 @@ int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapt const struct dvb_device *template, void *priv, int type) { struct dvb_device *dvbdev; + struct file_operations *dvbdevfops; + int id; if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&dvbdev_register_lock)) return -ERESTARTSYS; - if ((id = dvbdev_get_free_id (adap, type)) < 0) { + if ((id = dvbdev_get_free_id (adap, type)) < 0){ mutex_unlock(&dvbdev_register_lock); *pdvbdev = NULL; printk ("%s: could get find free device id...\n", __FUNCTION__); @@ -225,7 +227,15 @@ int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapt *pdvbdev = dvbdev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct dvb_device), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!dvbdev) { + if (!dvbdev){ + mutex_unlock(&dvbdev_register_lock); + return -ENOMEM; + } + + dvbdevfops = kzalloc(sizeof(struct file_operations), GFP_KERNEL); + + if (!dvbdevfops){ + kfree (dvbdev); mutex_unlock(&dvbdev_register_lock); return -ENOMEM; } @@ -235,7 +245,9 @@ int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapt dvbdev->id = id; dvbdev->adapter = adap; dvbdev->priv = priv; - + dvbdev->fops = dvbdevfops; + + memcpy(dvbdev->fops, template->fops, sizeof(struct file_operations)); dvbdev->fops->owner = adap->module; list_add_tail (&dvbdev->list_head, &adap->device_list); @@ -263,6 +275,7 @@ void dvb_unregister_device(struct dvb_de dvbdev->type, dvbdev->id))); list_del (&dvbdev->list_head); + kfree (dvbdev->fops); kfree (dvbdev); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dvb_unregister_device);