From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com,
jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com, bingbu.cao@intel.com,
hongju.wang@intel.com, Alain Volmat <alain.volmat@foss.st.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 9/9] media: v4l: subdev: Warn on stream when accessing stream-unaware data
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 21:09:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231026180931.GI26306@pendragon.ideasonboard.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZTqm-Cd4aPjwosYN@kekkonen.localdomain>
On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 05:50:48PM +0000, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 05:20:11PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 07:40:52AM +0000, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 09:36:41AM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > > > On 26/10/2023 09:03, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > > > > Warn if the stream is set ot a non-zero value on sub-device pad state
> > > > > access functions. A driver bug is required for triggering the warning.
> > > >
> > > > More confusion here: why not merge this into patch 2?
> > >
> > > I can squash it there.
> >
> > I'm fine with that, but I wonder if we need a WARN_ON() in that case.
> > Won't driver developers notice the bug, given they'll get a NULL pointer
> > ?
>
> Obviously they would. But it's also that the function shouldn't be called
> that way: it's an obvious omission of input validation elsewhere and that
> should be fixed.
Yes, but won't the NULL pointer that the driver receive lead to the
issue being fixed ? I expect a crash during development.
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-26 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-26 7:03 [PATCH v4 0/9] Unify sub-device state access functions Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 7:03 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] media: v4l: subdev: Store the sub-device in the sub-device state Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 7:03 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] media: v4l: subdev: Also return pads array information on stream functions Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 7:11 ` Hans Verkuil
2023-10-26 7:39 ` Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 7:03 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] media: v4l: subdev: Rename sub-device state information access functions Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 7:26 ` Hans Verkuil
2023-10-26 8:25 ` Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 9:51 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-10-26 10:10 ` Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 13:40 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-10-26 7:03 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] media: v4l: subdev: v4l2_subdev_state_get_format always returns format now Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 7:03 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] media: v4l: subdev: Make stream argument optional in state access functions Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 13:49 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-10-27 9:06 ` Sakari Ailus
2023-10-27 9:10 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-10-27 9:12 ` Sakari Ailus
2023-10-27 9:14 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-10-27 9:21 ` Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 7:03 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] media: v4l: subdev: Switch to stream-aware state functions Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 7:03 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] media: v4l: subdev: Remove stream-unaware sub-device state access Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 13:54 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-10-26 7:03 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] media: v4l: subdev: Return NULL from pad access functions on error Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 7:35 ` Hans Verkuil
2023-10-26 7:43 ` Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 13:55 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-10-26 7:03 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] media: v4l: subdev: Warn on stream when accessing stream-unaware data Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 7:36 ` Hans Verkuil
2023-10-26 7:40 ` Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 14:20 ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-10-26 17:50 ` Sakari Ailus
2023-10-26 18:09 ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
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