linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] media: cx25821: Fix a resource leak in cx25821_dev

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Message-ID: <6c6228d3-eb7c-4347-befd-f1de10e2ec2a@web.de>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2026 16:22:40 +0100
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@...c.iscas.ac.cn>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: cx25821: Fix a resource leak in
 cx25821_dev_setup()

> Add release_mem_region() if ioremap() fails to release the memory
> region obtained by cx25821_get_resources().

Do you try to synchronise resource release actions with information
from the implementation of the function “cx25821_dev_unregister”?
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.19-rc3/source/drivers/media/pci/cx25821/cx25821-core.c#L939-L963

How do you think about to add any tags (like “Fixes” and “Cc”) accordingly?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.19-rc3#n145

Regards,
Markus