diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/rk3288-vpu/rk3288_vpu_common.h b/drivers/media/platform/rk3288-vpu/rk3288_vpu_common.h
index 0082e2f57bfd..155693cb79e4 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/rk3288-vpu/rk3288_vpu_common.h
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/rk3288-vpu/rk3288_vpu_common.h
@@ -434,6 +434,11 @@ static inline struct rk3288_vpu_buf *vb_to_buf(struct vb2_buffer *vb)
 	return container_of(vb, struct rk3288_vpu_buf, b);
 }
 
+static inline bool rk3288_vpu_ctx_is_encoder(struct rk3288_vpu_ctx *ctx)
+{
+	return ctx->vpu_dst_fmt->codec_mode != RK_VPU_CODEC_NONE;
+}
+
 int rk3288_vpu_ctrls_setup(struct rk3288_vpu_ctx *ctx,
 			   const struct v4l2_ctrl_ops *ctrl_ops,
 			   struct rk3288_vpu_control *controls,
diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/rk3288-vpu/rk3288_vpu_hw.c b/drivers/media/platform/rk3288-vpu/rk3288_vpu_hw.c
index 7b7a79ff4cf6..8ca8b9abd548 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/rk3288-vpu/rk3288_vpu_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/rk3288-vpu/rk3288_vpu_hw.c
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ int rk3288_vpu_init(struct rk3288_vpu_ctx *ctx)
 {
 	enum rk3288_vpu_codec_mode codec_mode;
 
-	if (ctx->vpu_dst_fmt->codec_mode != RK_VPU_CODEC_NONE)
+	if (rk3288_vpu_ctx_is_encoder(ctx))
 		codec_mode = ctx->vpu_dst_fmt->codec_mode; /* Encoder */
 	else
 		codec_mode = ctx->vpu_src_fmt->codec_mode; /* Decoder */