Re: [PATCH] staging: vboxvideo: use drm_gem_object_put instead of drm_gem_object_unreference

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Wed Aug 02 2017 - 08:38:58 EST


On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:46 AM, Cihangir Akturk <cakturk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> drm_gem_object_unreference is a compatibility alias for drm_gem_object_put so should
> not be used by new code.
>
> This patch fixes the following warning reported by coccinelle:
>
> drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c:528:1-27: WARNING: use get/put
> helpers to reference and dereference obj
>
> Signed-off-by: Cihangir Akturk <cakturk@xxxxxxxxx>

Care to do this for all the drm drivers, not just the single one in staging?

Hans/Greg: Can we pls fix up MAINTAINERS to make sure vboxdrm patches
also go to dri-devel?

Thanks, Daniel

> ---
> drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c b/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
> index d0c6ec7..1addeac 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vboxvideo/vbox_main.c
> @@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ vbox_dumb_mmap_offset(struct drm_file *file,
> bo = gem_to_vbox_bo(obj);
> *offset = vbox_bo_mmap_offset(bo);
>
> - drm_gem_object_unreference(obj);
> + drm_gem_object_put(obj);
> ret = 0;
>
> out_unlock:
> --
> 2.7.4
>



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