Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] staging: Introduce NVIDIA Tegra video decoder driver

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 04:06:52PM +0200, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> > +	if (!wait_dma)
> > +		return 0;
> > +
> > +	err = readl_relaxed_poll_timeout(vde->bsev + INTR_STATUS, value,
> > +					 !(value & BSE_DMA_BUSY), 1, 100);
> > +	if (err) {
> > +		dev_err(dev, "BSEV DMA timeout\n");
> > +		return err;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> 
> 	if (err)
> 		dev_err(dev, "BSEV DMA timeout\n");
> 
> 	return err;
> 
> is two lines shorter.
> 

This is fine, but just watch out because getting clever with a last if
statement is a common anti-pattern.  For example, you often see it where
people do success handling instead of failure handling.  And it leads
to static checker bugs, and makes the code slightly more subtle.

> > +		err = tegra_vde_attach_dmabuf(dev, source->aux_fd,
> > +					      source->aux_offset, csize,
> > +					      &frame->aux_dmabuf_attachment,
> > +					      &frame->aux_addr,
> > +					      &frame->aux_sgt,
> > +					      NULL, dma_dir);
> > +		if (err)
> > +			goto err_release_cr;
> > +	}
> > +
> > +	return 0;
> 
> 	if (!err)
> 		return 0;
> 
> and then remove a check above.
> 

Argh!!!!  Success handling.  Always do failure handling, never success
handling.

The rest of your comments I agree with, though.

regards,
dan carpenter