Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] media: cx18: Don't check for address of video_dev | From | Hans Verkuil <> | Date | Mon, 1 Oct 2018 10:30:54 +0200 |
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On 09/21/2018 09:57 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote: > Clang warns that the address of a pointer will always evaluated as true > in a boolean context. > > drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c:1255:23: warning: address of > 'cx->streams[i].video_dev' will always evaluate to 'true' > [-Wpointer-bool-conversion] > if (&cx->streams[i].video_dev) > ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~ > 1 warning generated. > > Presumably, the contents of video_dev should have been checked, not the > address. This check has been present since 2009, introduced by commit > 21a278b85d3c ("V4L/DVB (11619): cx18: Simplify the work handler for > outgoing mailbox commands") > > Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> > --- > > Alternatively, this if statement could just be removed since it has > evaluated to true since 2009 and I assume some issue with this would > have been discovered by now. > > drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c b/drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c > index 56763c4ea1a7..753a37c7100a 100644 > --- a/drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c > +++ b/drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c > @@ -1252,7 +1252,7 @@ static void cx18_cancel_out_work_orders(struct cx18 *cx) > { > int i; > for (i = 0; i < CX18_MAX_STREAMS; i++) > - if (&cx->streams[i].video_dev) > + if (cx->streams[i].video_dev)
This should read:
if (cx->streams[i].video_dev.v4l2_dev)
If cx->streams[i].video_dev.v4l2_dev == NULL, then the stream is not in use and there is no need to cancel any work.
Can you post a v2?
> cancel_work_sync(&cx->streams[i].out_work_order); > } > >
Regards,
Hans
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