[PATCH] staging: bcm2835-camera: Initialise dev in v4l2_dev

Dave Stevenson dave.stevenson at raspberrypi.com
Mon Apr 14 10:41:47 PDT 2025


Commit 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to
vchiq_state") changed mmal_init to pass dev->v4l2_dev.dev to
vchiq_mmal_init, however nothing iniitialised dev->v4l2_dev, so we got
a NULL pointer dereference.

Set dev->v4l2_dev.dev during bcm2835_mmal_probe. The device pointer
could be passed into v4l2_device_register to set it, however that also
has other effects that would need additional changes.

Fixes: 42a2f6664e18 ("staging: vc04_services: Move global g_state to vchiq_state")
Signed-off-by: Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson at raspberrypi.com>
---
Noted as we switched to 6.12 that the driver would fail during probe
with an invalid dereference if a camera module was actually configured
for the legacy camera stack.
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/6753
---
 drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c
index b839b50ac26a..fa7ea4ca4c36 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c
@@ -1900,6 +1900,7 @@ static int bcm2835_mmal_probe(struct vchiq_device *device)
 				__func__, ret);
 			goto free_dev;
 		}
+		dev->v4l2_dev.dev = &device->dev;
 
 		/* setup v4l controls */
 		ret = bcm2835_mmal_init_controls(dev, &dev->ctrl_handler);

---
base-commit: 0af2f6be1b4281385b618cb86ad946eded089ac8
change-id: 20250410-staging-bcm2835-v4l2-fix-b8dbd933c23b

Best regards,
-- 
Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson at raspberrypi.com>




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