[media] media: Add a function removing all links of a media entity

This function allows to remove all media entity's links to other
entities, leaving no references to a media entity's links array
at its remote entities.
Currently, when a driver of some entity is removed it will free its
media entities links[] array, leaving dangling pointers at other
entities that are part of same media graph. This is troublesome when
drivers of a media device entities are in separate kernel modules,
removing only some modules will leave others in an incorrect state.
This function is intended to be used when an entity is being
unregistered from a media device.
With an assumption that normally the media links should be created
between media entities registered to a media device, with the graph
mutex held.

Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/media/media-entity.h b/include/media/media-entity.h
index 4eefedcaa66d..06bacf937d61 100644
--- a/include/media/media-entity.h
+++ b/include/media/media-entity.h
@@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ void media_entity_cleanup(struct media_entity *entity);
 
 int media_entity_create_link(struct media_entity *source, u16 source_pad,
 		struct media_entity *sink, u16 sink_pad, u32 flags);
+void __media_entity_remove_links(struct media_entity *entity);
+void media_entity_remove_links(struct media_entity *entity);
+
 int __media_entity_setup_link(struct media_link *link, u32 flags);
 int media_entity_setup_link(struct media_link *link, u32 flags);
 struct media_link *media_entity_find_link(struct media_pad *source,