treewide: Query list of cameras just once

This is more efficient since only a single vector will be constructed,
and furthermore, it prevents the TOCTOU issue that might arise when
the list of cameras changes between the two queries.

Signed-off-by: Barnabás Pőcze <pobrn@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/apps/cam/camera_session.cpp b/src/apps/cam/camera_session.cpp
index f13355ba..097dc479 100644
--- a/src/apps/cam/camera_session.cpp
+++ b/src/apps/cam/camera_session.cpp
@@ -39,9 +39,14 @@ CameraSession::CameraSession(CameraManager *cm,
 {
 	char *endptr;
 	unsigned long index = strtoul(cameraId.c_str(), &endptr, 10);
-	if (*endptr == '\0' && index > 0 && index <= cm->cameras().size())
-		camera_ = cm->cameras()[index - 1];
-	else
+
+	if (*endptr == '\0' && index > 0) {
+		auto cameras = cm->cameras();
+		if (index <= cameras.size())
+			camera_ = cameras[index - 1];
+	}
+
+	if (!camera_)
 		camera_ = cm->get(cameraId);
 
 	if (!camera_) {
diff --git a/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp b/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp
index 6a95b6af..9680d809 100644
--- a/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp
+++ b/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp
@@ -385,13 +385,14 @@ gst_libcamera_src_open(GstLibcameraSrc *self)
 			return false;
 		}
 	} else {
-		if (cm->cameras().empty()) {
+		auto cameras = cm->cameras();
+		if (cameras.empty()) {
 			GST_ELEMENT_ERROR(self, RESOURCE, NOT_FOUND,
 					  ("Could not find any supported camera on this system."),
 					  ("libcamera::CameraMananger::cameras() is empty"));
 			return false;
 		}
-		cam = cm->cameras()[0];
+		cam = cameras[0];
 	}
 
 	GST_INFO_OBJECT(self, "Using camera '%s'", cam->id().c_str());