linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] media: mediatek: fix VPU device leaks on probe

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Message-ID: <aR8URPPYRBuVCdDk@hovoldconsulting.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:14:44 +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
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] media: mediatek: fix VPU device leaks on probe

On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 11:04:52AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> This series fixes VPU device leaks during probe of the mdp driver.
> 
> Included is also a minor documentation update to make it clear that the
> VPU lookup helper returns the device with an incremented refcount.

> Changes in v2
>  - drop incorrect vcodec patch since that reference leak has already
>    been fixed by commit bf1d556ad4e0 ("media: mtk-vcodec: abstract
>    firmware interface") which added the codec release callback
> 
> 
> Johan Hovold (2):
>   media: mediatek: mdp: fix device leak on probe
>   media: mediatek: amend vpu_get_plat_device() documentation

Can these be picked up for 6.19?

Johan