linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] media: venus: adding core part and helper functions

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Date:   Fri, 11 Nov 2016 14:54:52 -0800
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:     Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@...aro.org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Andy Gross <andy.gross@...aro.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] media: venus: adding core part and helper
 functions

On 11/11, Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
> On 11/10/2016 11:43 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > Should this be ret |= ? Only the last time through the loop will
> > there be an error. Or perhaps we should be bailing out early from
> > this loop?
> 
> I think that even if unset_buffers fail we need to free the memory. In
> case of an error in firmware while unset buffers we should mark the
> session as invalid and abort the session acordingly.

Ok. So perhaps we shouldn't have any return value for this
function then?

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