On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:59:45 +0100
Hans de Goede <hdego...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 09-03-16 17:03, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> > v4l2-compliance fails with this message:
> >
> > fail: v4l2-test-buffers.cpp(512): Expected EBUSY, got 22
> > test VIDIOC_REQBUFS/CREATE_BUFS/QUERYBUF: FAIL
> >
> > Looking at the v4l2-compliance code reveals that this failure is about
> > the read() callback.
> >
> > In gspca, dev_read() is calling vidioc_dqbuf() which calls
> > frame_ready_nolock() but the latter returns -EINVAL in a case when
> > v4l2-compliance expects -EBUSY.
> >
> > Fix the failure by changing the return value in frame_ready_nolock().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <a...@ao2.it>
> > ---
> > drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c
> > b/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c
> > index 915b6c7..de7e300 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c
> > @@ -1664,7 +1664,7 @@ static int frame_ready_nolock(struct gspca_dev
> > *gspca_dev, struct file *file,
> > return -ENODEV;
> > if (gspca_dev->capt_file != file || gspca_dev->memory != memory ||
> > !gspca_dev->streaming)
> > - return -EINVAL;
> > + return -EBUSY;
> >
> > /* check if a frame is ready */
> > return gspca_dev->fr_o != atomic_read(&gspca_dev->fr_i);
>
> I'm not sure that this is the right fix:
>
>
> 1) !gspca_dev->streaming should result in -EINVAL, this is the same as what
> videobuf2 is doing
> 2) gspca_dev->memory != memory should result in -EINVAL
> 3) gspca_dev->capt_file != file means calling dqbuf without having done
> reqbufs (through the same fd)
> which certainly seemes like -EINVAL to me.
>
> The actual problem is that dev_read() is not catching that mmap is being in
> use:
>
> static ssize_t dev_read(struct file *file, char __user *data,
> size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
> {
> ...
> if (gspca_dev->memory == GSPCA_MEMORY_NO) { /* first time ? */
> ret = read_alloc(gspca_dev, file);
> if (ret != 0)
> return ret;
> }
>
> It will skip the read_alloc since gspca_dev->memory is USERPTR or MMAP
> and then do a dqbuf with memory == GSPCA_MEMORY_READ, triggering the
> gspca_dev->memory != memory check.
>
> There are a couple of issues here:
>
> 1) gspca_dev->memory check without holding usb_lock, the taking and
> releasing of usb_lock should be moved from read_alloc() into dev_read()
> itself.
>
> 2) dev_read() should not assume that reading is ok if
> gspca_dev->memory == GSPCA_MEMORY_NO, it needs a:
>
> if (gspca_dev->memory != GSPCA_MEMORY_NO &&
> gspca_dev->memory != GSPCA_MEMORY_READ)
> return -EBUSY;
>
> (while holding the usb_lock so the above is wrong)
>
> 3) If gspca_dev->memory == GSPCA_MEMORY_READ already the
> stream could have been stopped. so we need to check
> gspca_dev->streaming (while holding the usb_lock)
> and do a streamon if it is not set (and then we can
> remove the streamon from read_alloc())
>
> So TL;DR: dev_read needs some love.
>
I'll try to take a look at this too later this week.
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
>
> p.s.
>
> If you've time to work on v4l2 stuff what gspca really needs
> is to just have its buffer handling ripped out and be rewritten
> to use videobuf2. I would certainly love to see a patch for that.
>
It'd be an interesting tasklet but I don't know when I'll be able to do
that.
Ciao,
Antonio
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