kernel/linux.git/drivers/media/usb/usbtv, branch linux-7.1.y

media: usbtv: drop redundant device reference

2026-03-16T15:30:20+00:00

Driver core holds a reference to the USB interface and its parent USB device while the interface is bound to a driver and there is no need to take additional references unless the structures are needed after disconnect. Drop the redundant device reference to reduce cargo culting, make it easier to spot drivers where an extra reference is needed, and reduce the risk of memory leaks when drivers fail to release it. Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

media: usbtv: Lock resolution while streaming

2025-06-17T08:35:14+00:00

When an program is streaming (ffplay) and another program (qv4l2) changes the TV standard from NTSC to PAL, the kernel crashes due to trying to copy to unmapped memory. Changing from NTSC to PAL increases the resolution in the usbtv struct, but the video plane buffer isn't adjusted, so it overflows. Fixes: 0e0fe3958fdd13d ("[media] usbtv: Add support for PAL video source") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ludwig Disterhof Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil [hverkuil: call vb2_is_busy instead of vb2_is_streaming]

media: usb: drop vb2_ops_wait_prepare/finish

2024-10-28T08:19:56+00:00

Since commit 88785982a19d ("media: vb2: use lock if wait_prepare/finish are NULL") it is no longer needed to set the wait_prepare/finish vb2_ops callbacks as long as the lock field in vb2_queue is set. Since the vb2_ops_wait_prepare/finish callbacks already rely on that field, we can safely drop these callbacks. This simplifies the code and this is a step towards the goal of deleting these callbacks. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil

media: usbtv: Remove useless locks in usbtv_video_free()

2024-03-04T11:58:38+00:00

Remove locks calls in usbtv_video_free() because are useless and may led to a deadlock as reported here: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/bisect.txt?x=166dc872180000 Also remove usbtv_stop() call since it will be called when unregistering the device. Before 'c838530d230b' this issue would only be noticed if you disconnect while streaming and now it is noticeable even when disconnecting while not streaming. Fixes: c838530d230b ("media: media videobuf2: Be more flexible on the number of queue stored buffers") Fixes: f3d27f34fdd7 ("[media] usbtv: Add driver for Fushicai USBTV007 video frame grabber") Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard Reviewed-by: Tomasz Figa Tested-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil [hverkuil: fix minor spelling mistake in log message]

media: usb: usbtv: Stop direct calls to queue num_buffers field

2023-11-23T11:37:17+00:00

Use vb2_get_num_buffers() to avoid using queue num_buffers field directly. This allows us to change how the number of buffers is computed in the future. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard Reviewed-by: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

usbtv: usbtv_set_regs: the pipe is output

2023-04-11T15:10:10+00:00

We are setting a value. That is output and the pipe has to match that. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil

media: usbtv: Add PAL-Nc standard

2022-06-20T09:30:30+00:00

Add PAL-Nc support to usbtv, the corresponding register value "0x00fe" comes from the Windows driver "Active Development Co., Ltd. v2.1.1.2". Signed-off-by: Jorge Maidana Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

media: Kconfig: cleanup VIDEO_DEV dependencies

2022-03-18T04:58:35+00:00

media Kconfig has two entries associated to V4L API: VIDEO_DEV and VIDEO_V4L2. On Kernel 2.6.x, there were two V4L APIs, each one with its own flag. VIDEO_DEV were meant to: 1) enable Video4Linux and make its Kconfig options to appear; 2) it makes the Kernel build the V4L core. while VIDEO_V4L2 where used to distinguish between drivers that implement the newer API and drivers that implemented the former one. With time, such meaning changed, specially after the removal of all V4L version 1 drivers. At the current implementation, VIDEO_DEV only does (1): it enables the media options related to V4L, that now has: menu "Video4Linux options" visible if VIDEO_DEV source "drivers/media/v4l2-core/Kconfig" endmenu but it doesn't affect anymore the V4L core drivers. The rationale is that the V4L2 core has a "soft" dependency at the I2C bus, and now requires to select a number of other Kconfig options: config VIDEO_V4L2 tristate depends on (I2C || I2C=n) && VIDEO_DEV select RATIONAL select VIDEOBUF2_V4L2 if VIDEOBUF2_CORE default (I2C || I2C=n) && VIDEO_DEV In the past, merging them would be tricky, but it seems that it is now possible to merge those symbols, in order to simplify V4L dependencies. Let's keep VIDEO_DEV, as this one is used on some make *defconfig configurations. Suggested-by: Laurent Pinchart Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi Reviewed-by: Neil Armstrong # for meson-vdec & meson-ge2d Acked-by: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz Acked-by: Łukasz Stelmach Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab