diff --git a/src/libcamera/pipeline/raspberrypi/raspberrypi.cpp b/src/libcamera/pipeline/raspberrypi/raspberrypi.cpp
index 343f8cb2c7ed..1b599fcc9ecf 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/pipeline/raspberrypi/raspberrypi.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/pipeline/raspberrypi/raspberrypi.cpp
@@ -1506,6 +1506,9 @@ void PipelineHandlerRPi::mapBuffers(Camera *camera, const RPi::BufferMap &buffer
 
 void RPiCameraData::freeBuffers()
 {
+	if (!buffersAllocated_)
+		return;
+
 	if (ipa_) {
 		/*
 		 * Copy the buffer ids from the unordered_set to a vector to