From: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Adding the request API uncovered a pre-existing problem with validating output buffers. The problem is that for output buffers the driver has to validate the 'field' field of struct v4l2_buffer. This is critical when encoding or deinterlacing interlaced video. Drivers always did this in the buf_prepare callback, but that is not called from VIDIOC_QBUF in two situations: when queueing a buffer to a request and if VIDIOC_PREPARE_BUF has been called earlier for that buffer. As a result of this the 'field' value is not validated. While the first case (queueing a buffer to a request) is request API specific, the second case (VIDIOC_PREPARE_BUF has been called earlier for that buffer) was always wrong. This patch series adds a new buf_out_validate callback to validate the output buffer at QBUF time. Note that PREPARE_BUF doesn't need to validate the field: it just locks the buffer memory and doesn't need nor want to know about how this buffer is actually going to be used. It's the QBUF ioctl that determines this. This issue was found by v4l2-compliance since vivid failed to replace V4L2_FIELD_ANY by a proper field value when testing the vivid video output in combination with requests. There never was a test before for the PREPARE_BUF/QBUF case, so even though this bug has been present for quite some time, it was never noticed. This test has now been added to v4l2-compliance as well. Regards, Hans Changes since v1: - Renamed buf_validate to buf_out_validate since this is output specific. - Clarify in the commit log of the first patch that this isn't request API specific, but fixes a long standing problem that just wasn't noticed until now. Hans Verkuil (3): vb2: add buf_out_validate callback vim2m: add buf_out_validate callback vivid: add buf_out_validate callback .../media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c | 14 ++++++++--- drivers/media/platform/vim2m.c | 16 ++++++++++--- drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-vid-out.c | 23 +++++++++++++------ include/media/videobuf2-core.h | 5 ++++ 4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) -- 2.19.2