Re: [RFC v5 07/11] [media] vb2: add in-fence support to QBUF

[Brian Starkey <brian.starkey@arm.com>]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 11:19:05AM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>Em Fri, 17 Nov 2017 11:08:01 -0200
>Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org> escreveu:
>
>> 2017-11-17 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>:
>>
>> > Em Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:49:23 +0900
>> > Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@chromium.org> escreveu:
>> >
>> > > > @@ -178,6 +179,12 @@ static int vb2_queue_or_prepare_buf(struct
>> > > > vb2_queue *q, struct v4l2_buffer *b,
>> > > >  		return -EINVAL;
>> > > >  	}
>> > > >
>> > > > +	if ((b->fence_fd != 0 && b->fence_fd != -1) &&
>> > >
>> > > Why do we need to consider both values invalid? Can 0 ever be a valid fence
>> > > fd?
>> >
>> > Programs that don't use fences will initialize reserved2/fence_fd field
>> > at the uAPI call to zero.
>> >
>> > So, I guess using fd=0 here could be a problem. Anyway, I would, instead,
>> > do:
>> >
>> > 	if ((b->fence_fd < 1) &&
>> > 		...
>> >
>> > as other negative values are likely invalid as well.
>>
>> We are checking when the fence_fd is set but the flag wasn't. Checking
>> for < 1 is exactly the opposite. so we keep as is or do it fence_fd > 0.
>
>Ah, yes. Anyway, I would stick with:
>	if ((b->fence_fd > 0) &&
>		...
>

0 is a valid fence_fd right? If I close stdin, and create a sync_file,
couldn't I get a fence with fd zero?

-Brian

>>
>> Gustavo
>
>
>-- 
>Thanks,
>Mauro