Re: [PATCH] staging: vc04_services: vchiq_arm: Fix initialisation check

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Thu Jun 13 2024 - 15:58:56 EST


On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 08:41:45PM +0100, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> ---
> .../staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c | 4 ++--
> .../staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_core.h | 5 +++++
> .../staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_dev.c | 7 ++++++-
> 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> index 54467be8c371..67d853f5f2a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c
> @@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ int vchiq_initialise(struct vchiq_state *state, struct vchiq_instance **instance
> * block forever.
> */
> for (i = 0; i < VCHIQ_INIT_RETRIES; i++) {
> - if (state)
> + if (vchiq_remote_initialised(state))
> break;
> usleep_range(500, 600);
> }

:/ In the original code, this would either break on the first iteration
or fail. The diff looked like this:

for (i = 0; i < VCHIQ_INIT_RETRIES; i++) {
- state = vchiq_get_state();
if (state)
break;

I feel bad for not spotting this. A static checker which looked at
diffs could have made this work, but all of our tools look at a momement
in time instead of looking at the change over time.

regards,
dan carpenter