media: tuner: xc5000: Fix use-after-free in xc5000_release

Browse source

commit 40b7a19f32 upstream.

The original code uses cancel_delayed_work() in xc5000_release(), which
does not guarantee that the delayed work item timer_sleep has fully
completed if it was already running. This leads to use-after-free scenarios
where xc5000_release() may free the xc5000_priv while timer_sleep is still
active and attempts to dereference the xc5000_priv.

A typical race condition is illustrated below:

CPU 0 (release thread)                 | CPU 1 (delayed work callback)
xc5000_release()                       | xc5000_do_timer_sleep()
  cancel_delayed_work()                |
  hybrid_tuner_release_state(priv)     |
    kfree(priv)                        |
                                       |   priv = container_of() // UAF

Replace cancel_delayed_work() with cancel_delayed_work_sync() to ensure
that the timer_sleep is properly canceled before the xc5000_priv memory
is deallocated.

A deadlock concern was considered: xc5000_release() is called in a process
context and is not holding any locks that the timer_sleep work item might
also need. Therefore, the use of the _sync() variant is safe here.

This bug was initially identified through static analysis.

Fixes: f7a27ff1fb ("[media] xc5000: delay tuner sleep to 5 seconds")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
[hverkuil: fix typo in Subject: tunner -> tuner]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

...

This commit is contained in:

Duoming Zhou 2025-09-17 17:56:08 +08:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

parent 514a519baa

commit effb1c1958

1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions

Show all changes Ignore whitespace when comparing lines Ignore changes in amount of whitespace Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL

Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

2

drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c

View file