All the infrastructure for this is already there, and despite our desires for the old videobuf code to go away, it is currently still in use in 18 drivers. Allowing reqbufs(0) makes these drivers behave consistent with modern drivers, making live easier for userspace, see e.g. : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735660 Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf-core.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf-core.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf-core.c index fb5ee5d..b91a266 100644 --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf-core.c @@ -441,11 +441,6 @@ int videobuf_reqbufs(struct videobuf_queue *q, unsigned int size, count; int retval; - if (req->count < 1) { - dprintk(1, "reqbufs: count invalid (%d)\n", req->count); - return -EINVAL; - } - if (req->memory != V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP && req->memory != V4L2_MEMORY_USERPTR && req->memory != V4L2_MEMORY_OVERLAY) { @@ -471,6 +466,12 @@ int videobuf_reqbufs(struct videobuf_queue *q, goto done; } + if (req->count == 0) { + dprintk(1, "reqbufs: count invalid (%d)\n", req->count); + retval = __videobuf_free(q); + goto done; + } + count = req->count; if (count > VIDEO_MAX_FRAME) count = VIDEO_MAX_FRAME; -- 2.1.0 -- 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