This patch adds a test preventing streamon() if there is no buffer ready. Without this patch, a user could call streamon() before preparing any buffer. This leads to a situation where if he calls close() before calling streamoff() the device is kept streaming. Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c index 098df28..6f20e5a 100644 --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c @@ -1776,6 +1776,11 @@ static int vb2_internal_streamon(struct vb2_queue *q, enum v4l2_buf_type type) return 0; } + if (!q->num_buffers) { + dprintk(1, "streamon: no frames have been requested\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } + /* * If any buffers were queued before streamon, * we can now pass them to driver for processing. -- 1.8.5.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html