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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html