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From: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>
To: mchehab@kernel.org, hverkuil@kernel.org
Cc: laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com, crope@iki.fi,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	syzbot+6ffd76b5405c006a46b7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	syzbot+f1b20958f93d2d250727@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	Jeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 RESEND] media: hackrf: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in hackrf_probe()
Date: Thu,  4 Sep 2025 14:42:32 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250904054232.3848637-1-aha310510@gmail.com> (raw)

In hackrf driver, the following race condition occurs:
```
		CPU0						CPU1
hackrf_probe()
  kzalloc(); // alloc hackrf_dev
  ....
  v4l2_device_register();
  ....
						open("/path/to/dev"); // open hackrf dev
						....
  v4l2_device_unregister();
  ....
  kfree(); // free hackrf_dev
  ....
						ioctl(fd, ...);
						  v4l2_ioctl();
						    video_is_registered() // UAF!!
						....
						close(fd);
						  v4l2_release() // UAF!!
						    hackrf_video_release()
						      kfree(); // DFB!!
```

When a V4L2 or video device is unregistered, the device node is removed so
new open() calls are blocked.

However, file descriptors that are already open-and any in-flight I/O-do
not terminate immediately; they remain valid until the last reference is
dropped and the driver's release() is invoked.

Therefore, freeing device memory on the error path after hackrf_probe()
has registered dev it will lead to a race to use-after-free vuln, since
those already-open handles haven't been released yet.

And since release() free memory too, race to use-after-free and 
double-free vuln occur.

To prevent this, if device is registered from probe(), it should be
modified to free memory only through release() rather than calling
kfree() directly.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: syzbot+6ffd76b5405c006a46b7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6ffd76b5405c006a46b7
Reported-by: syzbot+f1b20958f93d2d250727@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f1b20958f93d2d250727
Fixes: 8bc4a9ed8504 ("[media] hackrf: add support for transmitter")
Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>
---
v2: Fix incorrect patch description style and CC stable mailing list
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250822142729.1156816-1-aha310510@gmail.com/
---
 drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c b/drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c
index 0b50de8775a3..d7a84422193d 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c
@@ -1515,6 +1515,8 @@ static int hackrf_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
 	video_unregister_device(&dev->rx_vdev);
 err_v4l2_device_unregister:
 	v4l2_device_unregister(&dev->v4l2_dev);
+	dev_dbg(&intf->dev, "failed=%d\n", ret);
+	return ret;
 err_v4l2_ctrl_handler_free_tx:
 	v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(&dev->tx_ctrl_handler);
 err_v4l2_ctrl_handler_free_rx:
--

             reply	other threads:[~2025-09-04  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-04  5:42 Jeongjun Park [this message]
2025-10-14  9:51 ` Hans Verkuil
2026-01-10  3:46   ` Jeongjun Park

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