[PATCH] media: v4l2-h264: Fix memcmp() size in B1 reference list comparison
From: Haotian Zhang
Date: Thu Aug 27 2026 - 22:21:05 EST
In v4l2_h264_build_b_ref_lists(), the B0/B1 list equality
check passes the entry count builder->num_valid to memcmp()
instead of a byte size. Since struct v4l2_h264_reference is
two bytes (fields and index), only half of each list is
compared, so distinct lists can be wrongly treated as equal
and trigger an incorrect swap(b1_reflist[0], b1_reflist[1]).
Change the memcmp() size argument to builder->num_valid *
sizeof(*b1_reflist) so that the full byte length of both
reference lists is compared.
Fixes: 624922a2739b ("media: v4l2-core: Add helpers to build the H264 P/B0/B1 reflists")
Signed-off-by: Haotian Zhang <vulab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-h264.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-h264.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-h264.c
index c00197d095e7..1b1421caf488 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-h264.c
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-h264.c
@@ -440,7 +440,8 @@ v4l2_h264_build_b_ref_lists(const struct v4l2_h264_reflist_builder *builder,
}
if (builder->num_valid > 1 &&
- !memcmp(b1_reflist, b0_reflist, builder->num_valid))
+ !memcmp(b1_reflist, b0_reflist,
+ builder->num_valid * sizeof(*b1_reflist)))
swap(b1_reflist[0], b1_reflist[1]);
print_ref_list_b(builder, b0_reflist, 0);
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