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media: uvcvideo: Fix allocation for small frame sizes
authorRicardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:32:13 +0000 (10:32 +0000)
committerHans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:18:51 +0000 (08:18 +0100)
If a frame has size of less or equal than one packet size
uvc_alloc_urb_buffers() is unable to allocate memory for it due to a
off-by-one error.

Fix the off-by-one-error and now that we are at it, make sure that
stream->urb_size has always a valid value when we return from the
function, even when an error happens.

Fixes: efdc8a9585ce ("V4L/DVB (10295): uvcvideo: Retry URB buffers allocation when the system is low on memory.")
Reported-by: Itay Chamiel <itay.chamiel@q.ai>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CANiDSCsSoZf2LsCCoWAUbCg6tJT-ypXR1B85aa6rAdMVYr2iBQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#t
Co-developed-by: Itay Chamiel <itay.chamiel@q.ai>
Signed-off-by: Itay Chamiel <itay.chamiel@q.ai>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Tested-by: Itay Chamiel <itay.chamiel@q.ai>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260114-uvc-alloc-urb-v1-1-cedf3fb66711@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c

index 2094e059d7d39ac5a196cbbd58f9bc997f1c1557..ec76595f3c4be0f49b798ec663d6855d78ab21c4 100644 (file)
@@ -1812,7 +1812,7 @@ static int uvc_alloc_urb_buffers(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
                npackets = UVC_MAX_PACKETS;
 
        /* Retry allocations until one succeed. */
-       for (; npackets > 1; npackets /= 2) {
+       for (; npackets > 0; npackets /= 2) {
                stream->urb_size = psize * npackets;
 
                for (i = 0; i < UVC_URBS; ++i) {
@@ -1837,6 +1837,7 @@ static int uvc_alloc_urb_buffers(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
        uvc_dbg(stream->dev, VIDEO,
                "Failed to allocate URB buffers (%u bytes per packet)\n",
                psize);
+       stream->urb_size = 0;
        return 0;
 }