From: Ryotaro Banno <ryotaro.banno@gmail.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] media: siano: fix oops in smsdvb_hotplug() due to race condition
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:43:32 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261018054403.76055-1-ryotaro.banno@gmail.com> (raw)
When two or more Siano tuners are connected in parallel (as in the PLEX
PX-Q1UD, which is a 4-tuner enclosure with one USB plug), a kernel oops
occurs in smsdvb_hotplug().
smsmdtv:smscore_register_client: Client already exist.
smsdvb:smsdvb_hotplug: smscore_register_client() failed -17
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000002f8
RIP: 0010:smsdvb_hotplug.cold+0x30/0x1a3 [smsdvb]
This happens because smsdvb_hotplug() is called twice for the same tuner
device due to a race condition. Suppose two tuners, dev_A and dev_B, are
connected in parallel:
CPU0 CPU1
smsusb_probe(dev_A) |
smscore_register_device(dev_A) |
// add dev_A to g_smscore_devices |
|smsusb_probe(dev_B)
|smscore_register_device(dev_B)
|// add dev_B to g_smscore_devices
smscore_notify_callbacks(dev_A) |
// nobody registered yet |
sms_board_load_modules() |
smscore_register_hotplug() |
smsdvb_hotplug(dev_B) |
// first call |
smsdvb_hotplug(dev_A) |
|smscore_notify_callbacks(dev_B)
|smsdvb_hotplug(dev_B)
|// second call and crash
The second smsdvb_hotplug() always crashes; smscore_register_client()
returns -EEXIST with the error message "Client already exist.", and the
error unwinding path calls smsdvb_media_device_unregister() while
client->coredev is NULL.
To fix the race, add the device to g_smscore_devices within the same
critical section that calls smscore_notify_callbacks().
smscore_register_hotplug() calls smsdvb_hotplug() under the same mutex,
so smsdvb_hotplug() is invoked exactly once per device.
Fixes: 2e5c1ec8865a ("V4L/DVB (8258): add support for SMS1010 and SMS1150 based digital television devices")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Ryotaro Banno <ryotaro.banno@gmail.com>
---
drivers/media/common/siano/smscoreapi.c | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/common/siano/smscoreapi.c b/drivers/media/common/siano/smscoreapi.c
index 017629e3cf84..c413f9696cb7 100644
--- a/drivers/media/common/siano/smscoreapi.c
+++ b/drivers/media/common/siano/smscoreapi.c
@@ -731,11 +731,6 @@ int smscore_register_device(struct smsdevice_params_t *params,
smscore_registry_settype(dev->devpath, params->device_type);
- /* add device to devices list */
- mutex_lock(&g_smscore_deviceslock);
- list_add(&dev->entry, &g_smscore_devices);
- mutex_unlock(&g_smscore_deviceslock);
-
*coredev = dev;
pr_debug("device %p created\n", dev);
@@ -892,6 +887,9 @@ int smscore_start_device(struct smscore_device_t *coredev)
mutex_lock(&g_smscore_deviceslock);
+ /* add device to devices list */
+ list_add(&coredev->entry, &g_smscore_devices);
+
rc = smscore_notify_callbacks(coredev, coredev->device, 1);
smscore_init_ir(coredev);
base-commit: d7e7bca7169873b46e857c025c10f3336c1258d8
--
2.54.0
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