[PATCH v2 00/11] staging: media: cedrus: assorted fixes and VP8 4K support

From: Jernej Skrabec

Date: Mon Nov 09 2026 - 12:53:08 EST


This series fixes a number of bugs in the Cedrus driver, found while
running the conformance suites and comparing with the vendor library,
mostly on H616.

Patches 1-10 are fixes:
- patch 1 fixes MV-col buffer leak when the file handle is closed
without STREAMOFF,
- patches 2 and 7 reject H.264/HEVC SPS and VP8 frame sizes beyond the
hardware limits, and fail jobs whose picture doesn't fit the buffers,
preventing memory overruns and hardware hangs,
- patch 3 marks H.264 long-term references, which fixes MR8_BT_B and
MR9_BT_B conformance samples,
- patches 4-6 fix MPEG-2 field picture decoding (field height, field
order detection and references of the second field),
- patch 8 enlarges VP8 probability table to the size used by the vendor
libraries, since the hardware uses the area past it as scratch space,
- patch 9 switches H616 to the 256-bit DDR mode, which fixes corrupted
reference chroma in H.264 and VP8,
- patch 10 clears the sizes of the H.264 DRAM buffers on start, which
fixes a double free when a narrow H.264 stream follows a wide one on
the same file handle.

Patch 11 is new functionality: VP8 decoding of frames wider than 2048
pixels. It depends on patch 10.

Changes in v2:
- patches 2 and 7: check only the hardware limits in try_ctrl. Check
whether the picture fits the buffers in the setup callbacks instead,
which fail the job with an error buffer. try_ctrl could be bypassed
by setting the control before the buffers were allocated (Nicolas,
Sashiko).
- patch 2: describe what the HEVC decoder takes from the SPS.
- patch 7: limit VP8 frames to 4080 pixels in width, as the frame size
register holds 8-bit macroblock counts.
- patch 3: pass the reference type instead of a bool (Nicolas), and
keep the reference type of the first field when the second field of
a pair is decoded into the same buffer (Sashiko).
- patch 4: halve the macroblock aligned height for the boundary of a
field, like the vendor library does (Nicolas).
- patch 10: new.
- patch 11: set the DRAM buffer sizes only once both buffers are
allocated and clear them first, so that a failed allocation or the
data of another codec can't leave stale sizes (Sashiko).
- collected Reviewed-by tags.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sunxi/20261102170303.1973892-1-jernej.skrabec@xxxxxxxxx/

Please take a look.

Best regards,
Jernej

Jernej Skrabec (11):
staging: media: cedrus: free MV-col buffers in buf_cleanup
staging: media: cedrus: reject too large H.264/HEVC SPS
staging: media: cedrus: h264: mark long-term references in the frame
info
staging: media: cedrus: mpeg2: use the field height for field pictures
staging: media: cedrus: mpeg2: derive the field order of field
pictures
staging: media: cedrus: mpeg2: fix the references of field pictures
staging: media: cedrus: validate VP8 frame size
staging: media: cedrus: vp8: use the vendor probability table size
staging: media: cedrus: h616: use the 256-bit DDR mode
staging: media: cedrus: h264: clear the DRAM buffer sizes on start
staging: media: cedrus: vp8: support frames wider than 2048 pixels

drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c | 40 +++++++++-
drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.h | 49 ++++++++++++
.../staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_h264.c | 66 +++++++++++++----
.../staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_h265.c | 32 +++++---
.../staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_hw.c | 14 +++-
.../staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_mpeg2.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++---
.../staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_regs.h | 8 ++
.../staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_video.c | 15 ++--
.../staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_video.h | 5 ++
.../staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus_vp8.c | 72 +++++++++++++++++-
10 files changed, 329 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)


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