Link validation currently accesses invalid pointers if the link passed to it is not between two sub-devices. This is of course a driver bug. Ignore the error but print a debug message, as this is how it used to work previously. Fixes: a6b995ed03ff ("media: subdev: use streams in v4l2_subdev_link_validate()") Reported-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Hi Hans, Could you test this? The bug is of course in the ImgU driver and this reverts to the old pre-streams behaviour. It silently fails instead of oopsing. The ImgU driver needs to be fixed and I think we could make this return an error at the same time. Right now I can't be sure the ImgU driver is the only one suffering from this, but if so, it's likely to be broken anyway. - Sakari drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c index dff1d9be7841..a6c80096586e 100644 --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c @@ -1224,6 +1224,17 @@ int v4l2_subdev_link_validate(struct media_link *link) struct v4l2_subdev_state *source_state, *sink_state; int ret; + if (!is_media_entity_v4l2_subdev(link->sink->entity)) { + pr_debug("entity \"%s\" not a V4L2 sub-device, driver bug!\n", + link->sink->entity->name); + return 0; + } + if (!is_media_entity_v4l2_subdev(link->source->entity)) { + pr_debug("entity \"%s\" not a V4L2 sub-device, driver bug!\n", + link->source->entity->name); + return 0; + } + sink_sd = media_entity_to_v4l2_subdev(link->sink->entity); source_sd = media_entity_to_v4l2_subdev(link->source->entity); -- 2.30.2