Re: [PATCH] media: staging: ipu3-imgu: Set fields before media_entity_pads_init()

[Hidenori Kobayashi]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 01:04:27PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 06:39:25PM +0900, Hidenori Kobayashi wrote:
> > The pad's flags is checked in media_entity_pads_init(), so it has to be
> > initialized beforehand. The ops initialization is also moved together
> > for readability.
> > 
> 
> How does this bug look like to a user?  What is the Fixes tag?  Does
> this need to be backported to stable?

I suppose I should have included those in the commit message.

1) To a user, the imgu driver fails to probe with the following message:

[   14.596315] ipu3-imgu 0000:00:05.0: failed initialize subdev media entity (-22)
[   14.596322] ipu3-imgu 0000:00:05.0: failed to register subdev0 ret (-22)
[   14.596327] ipu3-imgu 0000:00:05.0: failed to register pipes (-22)
[   14.596331] ipu3-imgu 0000:00:05.0: failed to create V4L2 devices (-22)

2) Re Fixes tag, I see that the first commit of imgu driver already
initializes the flags after media_entity_pads_init(). The documentation
of this API ( "Drivers must set the direction of every pad ... before
calling media_entity_pads_init") predates the first commit. So, I guess

Fixes: a0ca1627b450 ("media: staging/intel-ipu3: Add v4l2 driver based on media framework")

3) Re stable, I was not sure. The probe failure only appears after a
check was added by Commit deb866f9e3a45ae058b21765feeffae6aea6a193. That
check is not in linux-6.6.y branch. So I was not sure if this counts as
"a real bug that bothers people" mentioned in the document.


With the above, how does the following sounds to you?

The imgu driver fails to probe because it does not set the pad's flags
before calling media_entity_pads_init(). Fix the initialization order so
that the driver probe succeeds. The ops initialization is also moved
together for readability.

Fixes: a0ca1627b450 ("media: staging/intel-ipu3: Add v4l2 driver based on media framework")

Thanks for the guidance,
Hidenori