diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/va/gstvabasedec.c b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/va/gstvabasedec.c
index 09a3bd6a79..8414ecb2ee 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/va/gstvabasedec.c
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/va/gstvabasedec.c
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ _decide_allocation_for_video_crop (GstVideoDecoder * decoder,
   else
     gst_query_add_allocation_pool (query, pool, size, min, max);
 
-  GST_WARNING_OBJECT (decoder, "We need to copy the output buffer manually "
+  GST_WARNING_OBJECT (base, "We need to copy the output buffer manually "
       "because of the top/left alignment, which may have low performance. "
       "The element which supports VideoCropMeta such as 'vapostproc' can "
       "avoid this.");