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SubjectRe: [PATCH] gspca: add missing .type field check in VIDIOC_G_PARM
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:47:13 -0700 (PDT)
Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, [UTF-8] Németh Márton wrote:
> > The gspca webcam driver does not check the .type field of struct v4l2_streamparm.
> > This field is an input parameter for the driver according to V4L2 API specification,
> > revision 0.24 [1]. Add the missing check.
>
> I think this check could go in the v4l2 core too. It already does a
> similar check for QUERYBUF, QBUF, DQBUF, etc. If the driver doesn't
> provide a method for ->vidioc_try_fmt_foo() then the v4l2 core will reject
> a call with .type == V4L2_BUF_TYPE_foo.
>
> It seems like it should be ok to do this for S_PARM and G_PARM too.

I agree. Could you provide such patch?

Cheers,
Mauro
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