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> Reported-and-tested-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> --- 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 1bebcda2bd20c..dd911180ec899 100644 --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c @@ -1209,6 +1209,17 @@ 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_warn_once("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_warn_once("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