Re: [PATCH] vb2: Check if there are buffers before streamon

[Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>]

Hi,

On 2014-01-07 14:55, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> This patch adds a test preventing streamon() if there is no buffer
> ready.
>
> Without this patch, a user could call streamon() before
> preparing any buffer. This leads to a situation where if he calls
> close() before calling streamoff() the device is kept streaming.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c | 5 +++++
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c
> index 098df28..6f20e5a 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c
> @@ -1776,6 +1776,11 @@ static int vb2_internal_streamon(struct vb2_queue *q, enum v4l2_buf_type type)
>   		return 0;
>   	}
>   
> +	if (!q->num_buffers) {
> +		dprintk(1, "streamon: no frames have been requested\n");

I think that "streamon: error - no buffers have been allocated\n" 
message is a bit
more descriptive and it matches the definitions used elsewhere in the 
debug messages.
Please don't mix buffers and frames.

> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
>   	/*
>   	 * If any buffers were queued before streamon,
>   	 * we can now pass them to driver for processing.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland