diff --git a/src/libcamera/yaml_parser.cpp b/src/libcamera/yaml_parser.cpp
index 153a6d53c3f9..bf21141e20bb 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/yaml_parser.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/yaml_parser.cpp
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ int YamlParserContext::parseDictionaryOrList(YamlObject::Type type,
 	 * Add a safety counter to make sure we don't loop indefinitely in case
 	 * the YAML file is malformed.
 	 */
-	for (unsigned int sentinel = 1000; sentinel; sentinel--) {
+	for (unsigned int sentinel = 2000; sentinel; sentinel--) {
 		auto evt = nextEvent();
 		if (!evt)
 			return -EINVAL;