Re: [PATCH 4/8] media: imx: Fail conversion if pixel format not supported

[Dorota Czaplejewicz]

Hi Laurent,

On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 06:07:37 +0200
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Alexander and Dorota,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 01:15:10PM +0100, Alexander Stein wrote:
> > From: Dorota Czaplejewicz <dorota.czaplejewicz@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > imx_media_find_mbus_format has NULL as a valid return value,
> > therefore the caller should take it into account.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dorota Czaplejewicz <dorota.czaplejewicz@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-utils.c | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-utils.c b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-utils.c
> > index 32aaa2e81bea..e0a256a08c3b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-utils.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-utils.c
> > @@ -544,6 +544,9 @@ static int imx56_media_mbus_fmt_to_pix_fmt(struct v4l2_pix_format *pix,
> >  		cc = imx_media_find_mbus_format(code, PIXFMT_SEL_YUV);  
> 
> The code passed to the function comes from the previous line:
> 
> 	imx_media_enum_mbus_formats(&code, 0, PIXFMT_SEL_YUV);
> 
> As far as I can tell, this is guaranteed to return a code that will
> result in imx_media_find_mbus_format() returning a non-NULL pointer.
> 
While I am not well-versed in the implicit code style of the kernel, I decided to leave it in because it makes the code more locally legible. With a check here, even a non-functional one, there's no need to understand the internals of `imx_media_find_mbus_format` that are only implicit. That makes the code less surprising when interested only in the outer function.

The other advantage of a check is becoming robust against future changes to `imx_media_find_mbus_format` itself.

I don't have a strong preference about keeping or leaving this patch, but if this check was there in the first place, I wouldn't have spent time trying to figure out whether there's a bug here.

Cheers,
Dorota

> >  	}
> >  
> > +	if (!cc)
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> > +
> >  	/* Round up width for minimum burst size */
> >  	width = round_up(mbus->width, 8);
> >    
>

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