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media: v4l2-ctrls: Don't reset handler's error in v4l2_ctrl_handler_free()
authorSakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 8 May 2025 15:55:38 +0000 (18:55 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:34:27 +0000 (16:34 +0200)
commitd8bf3e843eab113b223b57247c4182e3b242cdfc
treeb6846879cca68ffd7be1654a0922f0fabbb4ae67
parent673ce1119ed1f753ca4017107715caaa604b67f1
media: v4l2-ctrls: Don't reset handler's error in v4l2_ctrl_handler_free()

commit 5a0400aca5fa7c6b8ba456c311a460e733571c88 upstream.

It's a common pattern in drivers to free the control handler's resources
and then return the handler's error code on drivers' error handling paths.
Alas, the v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() function also zeroes the error field,
effectively indicating successful return to the caller.

There's no apparent need to touch the error field while releasing the
control handler's resources and cleaning up stale pointers. Not touching
the handler's error field is a more certain way to address this problem
than changing all the users, in which case the pattern would be likely to
re-emerge in new drivers.

Do just that, don't touch the control handler's error field in
v4l2_ctrl_handler_free().

Fixes: 0996517cf8ea ("V4L/DVB: v4l2: Add new control handling framework")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls-core.c