linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/2] media: mediatek: amend vpu_get_plat

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20251028100454.4086-3-johan@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:04:54 +0100
From: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To: Minghsiu Tsai <minghsiu.tsai@...iatek.com>,
	Houlong Wei <houlong.wei@...iatek.com>,
	Andrew-CT Chen <andrew-ct.chen@...iatek.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
	Tiffany Lin <tiffany.lin@...iatek.com>,
	Yunfei Dong <yunfei.dong@...iatek.com>,
	Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas@...fresne.ca>,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] media: mediatek: amend vpu_get_plat_device() documentation

Add a comment to the vpu_get_plat_device() documentation to make it
clear that the VPU platform device is returned with an incremented
reference count (which needs to be dropped after use).

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vpu/mtk_vpu.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vpu/mtk_vpu.h b/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vpu/mtk_vpu.h
index da05f3e74081..5808311d2b15 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vpu/mtk_vpu.h
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/mediatek/vpu/mtk_vpu.h
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ int vpu_ipi_send(struct platform_device *pdev,
  *		device for using VPU API.
  *
  * Return: Return NULL if it is failed.
- * otherwise it is VPU's platform device
+ * otherwise it is VPU's platform device with incremented reference count
  **/
 struct platform_device *vpu_get_plat_device(struct platform_device *pdev);
 
-- 
2.51.0