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    v4l2allocator: reference memory before the buffer is queued · 7f763f27
    Jean-Christophe Trotin authored and Nicolas Dufresne's avatar Nicolas Dufresne committed
    In gst_v4l2_allocator_qbuf(), the memory is referenced after the
    buffer is queued. Once queued (VIDIOC_QBUF), the buffer might be handled
    by the V4L2 driver (e.g. decoded) and dequeued (gst_v4l2_allocator_dqbuf),
    through a different thread, before the memory is referenced (gst_memory_ref).
    In this case, in gst_v4l2_allocator_dqbuf(), the memory is unreferenced
    (gst_memory_unref) before having been referenced: the memory refcount
    reaches 0, and the memory is freed.
    So, to avoid this crossing case, in gst_v4l2_allocator_qbuf(), the
    memory shall be referenced before the buffer is queued.
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777399
    7f763f27