diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/rkisp1/TODO b/drivers/staging/media/rkisp1/TODO
index 9de4e44225e6..e7c8398fc2ce 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/rkisp1/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/rkisp1/TODO
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 * Fix pad format size for statistics and parameters entities.
 * Fix checkpatch errors.
-* Review and comment every lock
 * Add uapi docs. Remember to add documentation of how quantization is handled.
 * streaming paths (mainpath and selfpath) check if the other path is streaming
 in several places of the code, review this, specially that it doesn't seem it
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/rkisp1/rkisp1-capture.c b/drivers/staging/media/rkisp1/rkisp1-capture.c
index 4000f6c03d7e..b6f497ce3e95 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/rkisp1/rkisp1-capture.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/rkisp1/rkisp1-capture.c
@@ -955,6 +955,7 @@ static void rkisp1_stream_start(struct rkisp1_capture *cap)
 	cap->ops->config(cap);
 
 	/* Setup a buffer for the next frame */
+	spin_lock_irq(&cap->buf.lock);
 	rkisp1_set_next_buf(cap);
 	cap->ops->enable(cap);
 	/* It's safe to config ACTIVE and SHADOW regs for the
@@ -972,6 +973,7 @@ static void rkisp1_stream_start(struct rkisp1_capture *cap)
 			     RKISP1_CIF_MI_INIT_SOFT_UPD, RKISP1_CIF_MI_INIT);
 		rkisp1_set_next_buf(cap);
 	}
+	spin_unlock_irq(&cap->buf.lock);
 	cap->is_streaming = true;
 }