linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] media: uvcvideo: set error

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Date:   Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:42:04 +0200
From:   Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To:     Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, senozhatsky@...omium.org,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] media: uvcvideo: set error_idx to count on EACCESS

Hi Ricardo,

Thank you for the patch.

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 01:48:26PM +0100, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> If an error is found when validating the list of controls passed with
> VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS, then error_idx shall be set to ctrls->count to
> indicate
> to userspace that no actual hardware was touched.
> 
> It would have been much nicer of course if error_idx could point to the
> control index that failed the validation, but sadly that's not how the
> API was designed.
> 
> Fixes v4l2-compliance:
> Control ioctls (Input 0):
>                 fail: v4l2-test-controls.cpp(645): invalid error index write only control
>         test VIDIOC_G/S/TRY_EXT_CTRLS: FAIL
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>

Still pending discussions in v2.

> ---
>  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c
> index 157310c0ca87..36eb48622d48 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c
> @@ -1073,7 +1073,8 @@ static int uvc_ioctl_g_ext_ctrls(struct file *file, void *fh,
>  		ret = uvc_ctrl_get(chain, ctrl);
>  		if (ret < 0) {
>  			uvc_ctrl_rollback(handle);
> -			ctrls->error_idx = i;
> +			ctrls->error_idx = (ret == -EACCES) ?
> +						ctrls->count : i;
>  			return ret;
>  		}
>  	}

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart