Re: [patch] staging: bcm2835-camera: free first element in array

2017-02-16 Thread Dan Carpenter
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 01:47:55PM +0100, walter harms wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 15.02.2017 13:25, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> > We should free gdev[0] so the > should be >=.
> > 
> > Fixes: 7b3ad5abf027 ("staging: Import the BCM2835 MMAL-based V4L2 camera 
> > driver.")
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/platform/bcm2835/bcm2835-camera.c 
> > b/drivers/staging/media/platform/bcm2835/bcm2835-camera.c
> > index ca15a698e018..9bcd8e546a14 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/media/platform/bcm2835/bcm2835-camera.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/media/platform/bcm2835/bcm2835-camera.c
> > @@ -1998,7 +1998,7 @@ static int __init bm2835_mmal_init(void)
> >  free_dev:
> > kfree(dev);
> >  
> > -   for ( ; camera > 0; camera--) {
> > +   for ( ; camera >= 0; camera--) {
> > bcm2835_cleanup_instance(gdev[camera]);
> > gdev[camera] = NULL;
> > }
> 
> since we already know that programmers are bad in counting backwards ...
> 
> is is possible to change that into std. loop like:
> 
>  for(i=0, i< camera; i++ {
>   bcm2835_cleanup_instance(gdev[i]);
>   gdev[i] = NULL;
>   }
> 
> this is way a much more common pattern.

Hm...  My patch is buggy.  It frees the wong thing on the first
iteration through the loop.  I'll resend.

regards,
dan carpenter

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Re: [patch] staging: bcm2835-camera: free first element in array

2017-02-15 Thread walter harms


Am 15.02.2017 13:25, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> We should free gdev[0] so the > should be >=.
> 
> Fixes: 7b3ad5abf027 ("staging: Import the BCM2835 MMAL-based V4L2 camera 
> driver.")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/platform/bcm2835/bcm2835-camera.c 
> b/drivers/staging/media/platform/bcm2835/bcm2835-camera.c
> index ca15a698e018..9bcd8e546a14 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/platform/bcm2835/bcm2835-camera.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/platform/bcm2835/bcm2835-camera.c
> @@ -1998,7 +1998,7 @@ static int __init bm2835_mmal_init(void)
>  free_dev:
>   kfree(dev);
>  
> - for ( ; camera > 0; camera--) {
> + for ( ; camera >= 0; camera--) {
>   bcm2835_cleanup_instance(gdev[camera]);
>   gdev[camera] = NULL;
>   }

since we already know that programmers are bad in counting backwards ...

is is possible to change that into std. loop like:

 for(i=0, i< camera; i++ {
bcm2835_cleanup_instance(gdev[i]);
gdev[i] = NULL;
}

this is way a much more common pattern.


just my 2 cents,
re,
 wh

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