Re: [PATCH 11/65] media: Replace file->private_data access with custom functions

Lukasz Stelmach <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:10:40 +0200
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It was <2025-08-02 sob 11:22>, when Jacopo Mondi wrote:
> From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart-ryLnwIuWjnjg/[email protected]>
>
> Accessing file->private_data manually to retrieve the v4l2_fh pointer is
> error-prone, as the field is a void * and will happily cast implicitly
> to any pointer type.
>
> Replace all remaining locations that read the v4l2_fh pointer directly
> from file->private_data and cast it to driver-specific file handle
> structures with driver-specific functions that use file_to_v4l2_fh() and
> perform the same cast.
>
> No functional change is intended, this only paves the way to remove
> direct accesses to file->private_data and make V4L2 drivers safer.
> Other accesses to the field will be addressed separately.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart-ryLnwIuWjnjg/[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi-ryLnwIuWjnjg/[email protected]>
> ---

[...]

> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/samsung/s5p-g2d/g2d.c b/drivers/media=
/platform/samsung/s5p-g2d/g2d.c
> index ffed16a34493be2edbdaee13619467417487c1e7..44fcedbbc90a9863827aacbcd=
5f56d850cb552ea 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/samsung/s5p-g2d/g2d.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/samsung/s5p-g2d/g2d.c
> @@ -25,7 +25,10 @@
>  #include "g2d.h"
>  #include "g2d-regs.h"
>=20=20
> -#define fh2ctx(__fh) container_of(__fh, struct g2d_ctx, fh)
> +static inline struct g2d_ctx *file2ctx(struct file *filp)
> +{
> +	return container_of(file_to_v4l2_fh(filp), struct g2d_ctx, fh);
> +}
>=20=20
>  static struct g2d_fmt formats[] =3D {
>  	{
> @@ -272,7 +275,7 @@ static int g2d_open(struct file *file)
>  static int g2d_release(struct file *file)
>  {
>  	struct g2d_dev *dev =3D video_drvdata(file);
> -	struct g2d_ctx *ctx =3D fh2ctx(file->private_data);
> +	struct g2d_ctx *ctx =3D file2ctx(file);
>=20=20
>  	mutex_lock(&dev->mutex);
>  	v4l2_m2m_ctx_release(ctx->fh.m2m_ctx);


Acked-by: Lukasz Stelmach <[email protected]>


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=C5=81ukasz Stelmach
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

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