Re: [v4l-utils PATCH 1/1] v4l: libv4l2subdev: Precisely convert media bus string to code

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Hi Laurent,

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 09:41:12PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Sakari,
> 
> On Monday 25 January 2016 13:39:10 Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:33:45PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 09 December 2015 17:14:47 Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > >> The length of the string was ignored, making it possible for the
> > >> conversion to fail due to extra characters in the string.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure to follow you there. Is the issue that passing a string such
> > > as "SBGGR10" would match "SBGGR10_DPCM8" if it was listed before
> > > "SBGGR10" ? If that's the case I'd write the commit message as
> > 
> > Yes, that's the problem.
> > 
> > > Any character beyond the fist `length' characters in the mbus_formats
> > > strings are ignored, causing incorrect matches if the format entry starts
> > > with but isn't equal to the passed format.
> > 
> > I'll use this commit message then.
> > 
> > >> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> ---
> > >> This patch should be applied before the set "[v4l-utils PATCH v2 0/3]
> > >> List supported formats in libv4l2subdev":
> > >> 
> > >> <URL:http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg95377.html>
> > >> 
> > >>  utils/media-ctl/libv4l2subdev.c | 10 ++++------
> > >>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > >> 
> > >> diff --git a/utils/media-ctl/libv4l2subdev.c
> > >> b/utils/media-ctl/libv4l2subdev.c index 33c1ee6..cce527d 100644
> > >> --- a/utils/media-ctl/libv4l2subdev.c
> > >> +++ b/utils/media-ctl/libv4l2subdev.c
> > >> @@ -769,14 +769,12 @@ enum v4l2_mbus_pixelcode
> > >> v4l2_subdev_string_to_pixelcode(const char *string,
> > >> 	unsigned int i;
> > >> 
> > >>  	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(mbus_formats); ++i) {
> > >> -		if (strncmp(mbus_formats[i].name, string, length) == 0)
> > >> -			break;
> > >> +		if (strncmp(mbus_formats[i].name, string, length) == 0
> > >> +		    && strlen(mbus_formats[i].name) == length)
> > > 
> > > How about mbus_formats[i].name[length] == '\0' instead ? That should be
> > > more efficient.
> > 
> > Fine for me.
> > 
> > > I also wonder whether we shouldn't just get rid of the length argument and
> > > force the passed format string to be zero-terminated.
> > 
> > I believe the reason is that the current user (media-ctl test program)
> > parses the user input and passes a portion of that to this function to
> > convert the string to a numeric value. That'd be a bit more cumbersome as
> > we'd either require copying the string elsewhere or changing the input by
> > the program. I wouldn't change the behaviour, at least not now.
> 
> Yes that's the reason, and I think it's an API design mistake (or just a lack 
> of proper API design :-)). Wouldn't it be better to copy the string in the 
> caller ?

>From the API point of view, I don't disagree. But I do think this should be
done in a separate patch, not in this one --- this is a bugfix, really.

I'll submit one more patch for that.

> > >> +			return mbus_formats[i].code;
> > >>  	}
> > >> 
> > >> -	if (i == ARRAY_SIZE(mbus_formats))
> > >> -		return (enum v4l2_mbus_pixelcode)-1;
> > >> -
> > >> -	return mbus_formats[i].code;
> > >> +	return (enum v4l2_mbus_pixelcode)-1;
> > >>  }
> > >>  
> > >>  static struct {
> 

-- 
Regards,

Sakari Ailus
e-mail: sakari.ailus@xxxxxx	XMPP: sailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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