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From: Muhammad Waleed Badar <walid.badar@gmail.com>
To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2] media: uvcvideo: Handle payloads starting in the middle of a bulk URB
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:02:15 +0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261025170220.42789-1-walid.badar@gmail.com> (raw)

The bulk decoder assumes that every payload starts at the beginning of
a URB. It detects the end of a payload either by a short URB or by the
accumulated payload size reaching dwMaxPayloadTransferSize, and then
decodes the start of the next URB as a new payload header.

The Realtek USB Camera (0bda:579f) integrated in Razer Blade laptops
sends payloads of dwMaxPayloadTransferSize bytes back to back without
aligning them to URB boundaries, which is not compliant with the UVC
specification. When a frame spans more than one payload, the next
payload header lands in the middle of a URB. The driver then copies
that header and the data that follows into the current frame, and
parses frame data at the start of the next URB as a header. This shows
up as "Marking buffer as bad (error bit set)" and "Dropping payload
(out of sync)" trace messages, and most frames larger than one payload
are returned empty or truncated. On this camera every MJPEG mode above
1280x720 is affected.

Add a UVC_QUIRK_BULK_UNALIGNED_PAYLOAD quirk for this device. When it
is set and a payload ends in the middle of a URB, split the URB at the
payload boundary and decode the remainder as a new payload, provided
that it looks like a payload header (EOH bit set and a header length
that fits the data and covers the announced PTS and SCR fields).
Otherwise the URB is processed as before. Print a non compliance
warning once when the workaround is used.

The quirk is limited to this device, and the header check is kept as a
safeguard, because other non compliant bulk devices append trailer
data to their payloads, and decoding that data as a payload header
would break them. Devices without the quirk are unaffected. The quirk
can be enabled for other devices with the quirks module parameter.

Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207045
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Waleed Badar <walid.badar@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c |  9 +++
 drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c  | 95 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h   |  2 +
 3 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
index e289cc71b..cfdcfd96a 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
@@ -2887,6 +2887,15 @@ static const struct usb_device_id uvc_ids[] = {
 	  .bInterfaceSubClass	= 1,
 	  .bInterfaceProtocol	= 0,
 	  .driver_info		= (kernel_ulong_t)&uvc_quirk_probe_minmax },
+	/* Realtek USB Camera (Razer Blade) */
+	{ .match_flags		= USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_DEVICE
+				| USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_INT_INFO,
+	  .idVendor		= 0x0bda,
+	  .idProduct		= 0x579f,
+	  .bInterfaceClass	= USB_CLASS_VIDEO,
+	  .bInterfaceSubClass	= 1,
+	  .bInterfaceProtocol	= 0,
+	  .driver_info		= UVC_INFO_QUIRK(UVC_QUIRK_BULK_UNALIGNED_PAYLOAD) },
 	/* Sonix Technology Co. Ltd. - 292A IPC AR0330 */
 	{ .match_flags		= USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_DEVICE
 				| USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_INT_INFO,
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
index fc3536a43..8a1e4bc77 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
@@ -1612,27 +1612,20 @@ static void uvc_video_decode_isoc(struct uvc_urb *uvc_urb,
 	}
 }
 
-static void uvc_video_decode_bulk(struct uvc_urb *uvc_urb,
-			struct uvc_buffer *buf, struct uvc_buffer *meta_buf)
+static void uvc_video_decode_bulk_chunk(struct uvc_urb *uvc_urb,
+					struct uvc_buffer **bufp,
+					struct uvc_buffer **meta_bufp,
+					u8 *mem, int len, bool short_urb)
 {
-	struct urb *urb = uvc_urb->urb;
 	struct uvc_streaming *stream = uvc_urb->stream;
-	u8 *mem;
-	int len, ret;
-
-	/*
-	 * Ignore ZLPs if they're not part of a frame, otherwise process them
-	 * to trigger the end of payload detection.
-	 */
-	if (urb->actual_length == 0 && stream->bulk.header_size == 0)
-		return;
+	struct uvc_buffer *buf = *bufp;
+	struct uvc_buffer *meta_buf = *meta_bufp;
+	int ret;
 
-	mem = urb->transfer_buffer;
-	len = urb->actual_length;
 	stream->bulk.payload_size += len;
 
 	/*
-	 * If the URB is the first of its payload, decode and save the
+	 * If the chunk is the first of its payload, decode and save the
 	 * header.
 	 */
 	if (stream->bulk.header_size == 0 && !stream->bulk.skip_payload) {
@@ -1671,7 +1664,7 @@ static void uvc_video_decode_bulk(struct uvc_urb *uvc_urb,
 	 * Detect the payload end by a URB smaller than the maximum size (or
 	 * a payload size equal to the maximum) and process the header again.
 	 */
-	if (urb->actual_length < urb->transfer_buffer_length ||
+	if (short_urb ||
 	    stream->bulk.payload_size >= stream->bulk.max_payload_size) {
 		if (!stream->bulk.skip_payload && buf != NULL) {
 			uvc_video_decode_end(stream, buf, stream->bulk.header,
@@ -1684,6 +1677,76 @@ static void uvc_video_decode_bulk(struct uvc_urb *uvc_urb,
 		stream->bulk.skip_payload = 0;
 		stream->bulk.payload_size = 0;
 	}
+
+	*bufp = buf;
+	*meta_bufp = meta_buf;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Check whether data looks like the start of a payload: a header with the
+ * EOH bit set, and a length that fits in the data and is large enough for
+ * the PTS and SCR fields it announces.
+ */
+static bool uvc_video_bulk_is_header(const u8 *data, int len)
+{
+	unsigned int min_len = 2;
+
+	if (len < 2 || !(data[1] & UVC_STREAM_EOH))
+		return false;
+
+	if (data[1] & UVC_STREAM_PTS)
+		min_len += 4;
+	if (data[1] & UVC_STREAM_SCR)
+		min_len += 6;
+
+	return data[0] >= min_len && data[0] <= len;
+}
+
+static void uvc_video_decode_bulk(struct uvc_urb *uvc_urb,
+			struct uvc_buffer *buf, struct uvc_buffer *meta_buf)
+{
+	struct urb *urb = uvc_urb->urb;
+	struct uvc_streaming *stream = uvc_urb->stream;
+	bool short_urb = urb->actual_length < urb->transfer_buffer_length;
+	u8 *mem;
+	int len;
+
+	/*
+	 * Ignore ZLPs if they're not part of a frame, otherwise process them
+	 * to trigger the end of payload detection.
+	 */
+	if (urb->actual_length == 0 && stream->bulk.header_size == 0)
+		return;
+
+	mem = urb->transfer_buffer;
+	len = urb->actual_length;
+
+	do {
+		int chunk = len;
+		int rem = stream->bulk.max_payload_size -
+			  stream->bulk.payload_size;
+
+		/*
+		 * Some devices (such as the Realtek 0bda:579f) start the next
+		 * payload immediately after the previous one instead of in a
+		 * new URB, so a payload boundary can fall in the middle of a
+		 * URB. For those, split the URB at the payload boundary if
+		 * the data that follows looks like a payload header. Other
+		 * devices may append trailer data to a payload, which must
+		 * not be decoded as a header, so leave them alone.
+		 */
+		if ((stream->dev->quirks & UVC_QUIRK_BULK_UNALIGNED_PAYLOAD) &&
+		    len > rem && uvc_video_bulk_is_header(mem + rem, len - rem)) {
+			uvc_warn_once(stream->dev, UVC_WARN_BULK_UNALIGNED,
+				      "UVC non compliance - bulk payload starts in the middle of a URB. Enabling workaround.\n");
+			chunk = rem;
+		}
+
+		uvc_video_decode_bulk_chunk(uvc_urb, &buf, &meta_buf, mem,
+					    chunk, short_urb && chunk == len);
+		mem += chunk;
+		len -= chunk;
+	} while (len > 0);
 }
 
 static void uvc_video_encode_bulk(struct uvc_urb *uvc_urb,
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
index b6bcee4a2..59ad516ae 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
 #define UVC_QUIRK_INVALID_DEVICE_SOF	0x00010000
 #define UVC_QUIRK_MJPEG_NO_EOF		0x00020000
 #define UVC_QUIRK_MSXU_META		0x00040000
+#define UVC_QUIRK_BULK_UNALIGNED_PAYLOAD	0x00080000
 
 /* Format flags */
 #define UVC_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED		0x00000001
@@ -661,6 +662,7 @@ static inline struct uvc_fh *to_uvc_fh(struct file *filp)
 #define UVC_WARN_MINMAX		0
 #define UVC_WARN_PROBE_DEF	1
 #define UVC_WARN_XU_GET_RES	2
+#define UVC_WARN_BULK_UNALIGNED	3
 
 extern unsigned int uvc_clock_param;
 extern unsigned int uvc_no_drop_param;
-- 
2.56.0


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