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Accessing file->private_data manually to retrieve the v4l2_fh pointer is error-prone, as the field is a void * and will happily convert implicitly to any pointer type. To avoid direct access to file->private_data, introduce a new inline function that retrieves the v4l2_fh pointer, and use it to replace common access patterns through the kernel. Changes to drivers have been generated with the following coccinelle semantic patch: @@ struct file *filp; identifier fh; @@ - struct v4l2_fh *fh = filp->private_data; + struct v4l2_fh *fh = file_to_v4l2_fh(filp); Manual changes have been applied to Documentation/ to update the usage patterns, and to include/media/v4l2-fh.h to add the new function. While at it, fix a typo in the title of v4l2-fh.rst: the file describes the "file handles" API, not "file handlers". 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+renesas@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.