[PATCH v3 0/7] staging: Destage VCHIQ interface and MMAL

Jai Luthra jai.luthra at ideasonboard.com
Wed Oct 29 22:00:22 PDT 2025


Hi Dan,

Thanks for the review.

Quoting Dan Carpenter (2025-10-29 17:40:32)
> I did a review of some Smatch warnings.  These aren't published because
> they generate too many false positives.  Only number 3 and number 7
> are actual issues the rest are style nit-picks.

3 - 8 are for bcm2835-camera, which is altogether dropped from staging in
PATCH 1/7.

> 
> 1. drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.c:2728 vchiq_add_service_internal() info: returning a literal zero is cleaner
> s/return service;/return NULL;/
> 
> 2. drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c:408 vchiq_shutdown() info: returning a literal zero is cleaner
> Delete the "ret" variable.
> 
> 3. drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/controls.c:198 ctrl_set_iso() warn: array off by one? 'iso_values[ctrl->val]'
> There seems to be a mixup between iso_qmenu[] and iso_values[].  The one
> is only used for ARRAY_SIZE() and the other is never checked for
> ARRAY_SIZE().
> 
> 4. drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c:337 buffer_cb() warn: can 'buf' even be NULL?
> Delete the NULL check.
> 
> 5. drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c:513 start_streaming() pedantic: propagate return from 'enable_camera' instead of returning '-EINVAL'
> -       if (enable_camera(dev) < 0) {
> +       ret = enable_camera(dev);
> +       if (ret) {
>                 v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev, "Failed to enable camera\n");
> -               return -EINVAL;
> +               return ret;
>         }
> 6. drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c:576 start_streaming() pedantic: propagate return from 'disable_camera' instead of returning '-EINVAL'
> Same.
> 
> 7. drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c:881 vidioc_querycap() error: uninitialized symbol 'major'.
>    drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c:881 vidioc_querycap() error: uninitialized symbol 'minor'.
> No error checking on vchiq_mmal_version()
> 
> 8. drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c:1276 mmal_setup_components() info: returning a literal zero is cleaner
> s/return ret;/return 0;/
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter

Thanks,
Jai



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