From: Biren Pandya <birenpandya@gmail.com>
To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>,
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Biren Pandya <birenpandya@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] media: v4l2-subdev: Fix Use-After-Free risk in fwnode pad matching
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:07:54 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260616063754.42163-1-birenpandya@gmail.com> (raw)
In v4l2_subdev_get_fwnode_pad_1_to_1(), fwnode_handle_put() is called immediately after fetching the endpoint's parent node. However, the pointer is subsequently passed into device_match_fwnode().
While device_match_fwnode() only performs a pointer comparison and does not dereference the pointer, passing a dangling pointer is a Use-After-Free violation. If the memory allocator immediately reuses the freed fwnode address for another node, the comparison will yield a false positive. Furthermore, static analysis and KASAN strictly flag passing dangling pointers to functions.
Fix this by replacing the manual fwnode_handle_put() with the __free(fwnode_handle) scoped guard, which guarantees the reference is safely held for the remainder of the function scope.
Fixes: 8fe784b9abb2 ("media: v4l2-subdev: add v4l2_subdev_get_fwnode_pad_1_to_1")
Signed-off-by: Biren Pandya <birenpandya@gmail.com>
---
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c
index 831c69c958b8..24c95082ded5 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
* Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>
*/
+#include <linux/cleanup.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/ioctl.h>
#include <linux/leds.h>
@@ -1243,7 +1244,6 @@ const struct v4l2_file_operations v4l2_subdev_fops = {
int v4l2_subdev_get_fwnode_pad_1_to_1(struct media_entity *entity,
struct fwnode_endpoint *endpoint)
{
- struct fwnode_handle *fwnode;
struct v4l2_subdev *sd;
if (!is_media_entity_v4l2_subdev(entity))
@@ -1251,8 +1251,8 @@ int v4l2_subdev_get_fwnode_pad_1_to_1(struct media_entity *entity,
sd = media_entity_to_v4l2_subdev(entity);
- fwnode = fwnode_graph_get_port_parent(endpoint->local_fwnode);
- fwnode_handle_put(fwnode);
+ struct fwnode_handle *fwnode __free(fwnode_handle) =
+ fwnode_graph_get_port_parent(endpoint->local_fwnode);
if (device_match_fwnode(sd->dev, fwnode))
return endpoint->port;
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
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