From: Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@gmail.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+ae466a728017ec940b41@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] media: dvb-core: pin frontend device through release
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:42:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260628094205.44981-1-alhouseenyousef@gmail.com> (raw)
dvb_generic_release() drops the reference held by the open file. Device
unregistration may already have dropped the registration reference, in
which case the call frees dvbdev. dvb_frontend_release() nevertheless
continues to inspect its user count, wait queue, media entity and private
frontend after that call, causing a use-after-free.
Take a temporary device reference around the generic release and the
remaining frontend shutdown work.
Fixes: 0fc044b2b5e2 ("media: dvbdev: adopts refcnt to avoid UAF")
Reported-by: syzbot+ae466a728017ec940b41@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ae466a728017ec940b41
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@gmail.com>
---
drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
index 7aebaef18191..1276fe704675 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
@@ -2912,6 +2912,7 @@ static int dvb_frontend_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
mb();
}
+ dvb_device_get(dvbdev);
ret = dvb_generic_release(inode, file);
if (dvbdev->users == -1) {
@@ -2933,6 +2934,7 @@ static int dvb_frontend_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
}
dvb_frontend_put(fe);
+ dvb_device_put(dvbdev);
return ret;
}
--
2.54.0
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