* [PATCH] media: v4l2-mem2mem: wait for the job-finish scheduling tail
@ 2026-11-04 9:30 Yaohan Li
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From: Yaohan Li @ 2026-11-04 9:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mchehab
Cc: hverkuil+cisco, Frank.Li, ming.qian, nicolas.dufresne, dmantipov,
121811682, ezequiel, linux-media, linux-kernel
The job-finish path clears TRANS_RUNNING and TRANS_QUEUED before its
follow-up scheduling tail has finished using the mem2mem context.
If release races with that tail, v4l2_m2m_cancel_job() can observe no
running or queued job and allow the context to be freed while the tail
still accesses it.
Track the scheduling tail with a completion and wait for it in the
cancellation path. Start the completion in the done state so contexts
that never ran a job do not wait indefinitely, reinitialize it when a
scheduling tail begins, and complete it after the tail finishes.
The original race was reproduced as a KASAN use-after-free in the
common mem2mem code using the in-tree vicodec test driver and targeted
timing injection.
Fixes: cbd9463da1b12 ("media: v4l2-mem2mem: Avoid calling .device_run in v4l2_m2m_job_finish")
Assisted-by: ZCode:GLM-4
Signed-off-by: Yaohan Li <shunsheng1218@gmail.com>
---
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c
index a65cbb124cfe0..7637a876bb8c3 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c
@@ -439,6 +439,13 @@ static void v4l2_m2m_cancel_job(struct v4l2_m2m_ctx *m2m_ctx)
/* Do nothing, was not on queue/running */
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&m2m_dev->job_spinlock, flags);
}
+
+ /*
+ * A job-finish tail may still walk this instance after
+ * TRANS_RUNNING was cleared; wait for it to finish so the caller
+ * can safely release the instance.
+ */
+ wait_for_completion(&m2m_ctx->scheduling_done);
}
/*
@@ -460,6 +467,14 @@ static void v4l2_m2m_schedule_next_job(struct v4l2_m2m_dev *m2m_dev,
* but the job must be run in non-atomic context.
*/
schedule_work(&m2m_dev->job_work);
+
+ /*
+ * Signal that the scheduling tail is done. complete_all is
+ * atomic: once called, all current and future waiters are
+ * released, with no lock-free condition window as with
+ * wait_event() + a flag bit.
+ */
+ complete_all(&m2m_ctx->scheduling_done);
}
/*
@@ -476,7 +491,14 @@ static bool _v4l2_m2m_job_finish(struct v4l2_m2m_dev *m2m_dev,
list_del(&m2m_dev->curr_ctx->queue);
m2m_dev->curr_ctx->job_flags &= ~(TRANS_QUEUED | TRANS_RUNNING);
+ /*
+ * The follow-up scheduling of the same instance still walks it
+ * after the lock is dropped; re-arm the completion so that
+ * v4l2_m2m_cancel_job() waits for the tail to finish before
+ * releasing the instance.
+ */
wake_up(&m2m_dev->curr_ctx->finished);
+ reinit_completion(&m2m_dev->curr_ctx->scheduling_done);
m2m_dev->curr_ctx = NULL;
return true;
}
@@ -1245,6 +1267,11 @@ struct v4l2_m2m_ctx *v4l2_m2m_ctx_init(struct v4l2_m2m_dev *m2m_dev,
m2m_ctx->priv = drv_priv;
m2m_ctx->m2m_dev = m2m_dev;
init_waitqueue_head(&m2m_ctx->finished);
+ init_completion(&m2m_ctx->scheduling_done);
+ /* Start as done: a context that never runs a job must not block
+ * in v4l2_m2m_cancel_job(). reinit_completion() below re-arms it
+ * each time a scheduling tail actually starts. */
+ complete_all(&m2m_ctx->scheduling_done);
out_q_ctx = &m2m_ctx->out_q_ctx;
cap_q_ctx = &m2m_ctx->cap_q_ctx;
diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h b/include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h
index 31de25d792b98..89c8f10de67c7 100644
--- a/include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h
+++ b/include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ struct v4l2_m2m_queue_ctx {
* @out_q_ctx: Output (input from memory) queue context
* @queue: List of memory to memory contexts
* @job_flags: Job queue flags, used internally by v4l2-mem2mem.c:
- * %TRANS_QUEUED, %TRANS_RUNNING and %TRANS_ABORT.
+ * %TRANS_QUEUED, %TRANS_RUNNING, %TRANS_ABORT and %TRANS_SCHEDULING.
* @finished: Wait queue used to signalize when a job queue finished.
* @priv: Instance private data
*
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ struct v4l2_m2m_ctx {
struct list_head queue;
unsigned long job_flags;
wait_queue_head_t finished;
+ struct completion scheduling_done;
void *priv;
};
--
2.34.1
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