* [PATCH] media: meson: vdec: fix NULL pointer deref in vdec_try_fmt_common
@ 2026-06-24 6:58 Christian Hewitt
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From: Christian Hewitt @ 2026-06-24 6:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Neil Armstrong, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Kevin Hilman, Jerome Brunet,
Martin Blumenstingl, linux-media, linux-amlogic, linux-staging,
linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
When VIDIOC_TRY_FMT is called with an unsupported pixel format on the
OUTPUT queue, vdec_try_fmt_common() falls back to V4L2_PIX_FMT_MPEG2.
However, if a distro has locally patched MPEG2 support out (as it has
been broken for some time) the platform format table does not contain
MPEG2 so find_format() returns NULL and the subsequent dereference of
fmt_out->max_width triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
Fix this by falling back to the first format in the platform's format
array instead of hardcoding V4L2_PIX_FMT_MPEG2. This is always valid
since every platform defines at least one format.
Fixes: 3e7f51bd9607 ("media: meson: add v4l2 m2m video decoder driver")
Signed-off-by: Christian Hewitt <christianshewitt@gmail.com>
---
This fixes use of v4l2-ctl and v4l2-compliance tools when MPEG2 support
has been disabled via vdec_platform.c - NB: although this is a fix it's
also a rather niche scenario so there's no need to backport it to older
stable kernels.
drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c
index 4b77ec1af5a7..f3e7072f221a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c
@@ -504,8 +504,8 @@ vdec_try_fmt_common(struct amvdec_session *sess, u32 size,
case V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_OUTPUT_MPLANE:
fmt_out = find_format(fmts, size, pixmp->pixelformat);
if (!fmt_out) {
- pixmp->pixelformat = V4L2_PIX_FMT_MPEG2;
- fmt_out = find_format(fmts, size, pixmp->pixelformat);
+ pixmp->pixelformat = fmts[0].pixfmt;
+ fmt_out = &fmts[0];
}
break;
case V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE_MPLANE:
--
2.43.0
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