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| author | Jeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com> | 2026-01-11 00:17:53 +0900 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2026-04-22 13:30:52 +0200 |
| commit | 2eeae47a438694408189138048a786be99954032 (patch) | |
| tree | d8907ebd7b74bcb2fb2b38d1c2529f4e2ba7b816 /tools/lib/python/kdoc/python_version.py | |
| parent | 1c52ef00e391144334f10995985c2f256d4be982 (diff) | |
media: as102: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in as102_usb_probe()
commit 8bd29dbe03fc5b0f039ab2395ff37b64236d2f0c upstream.
In as102_usb driver, the following race condition occurs:
```
CPU0 CPU1
as102_usb_probe()
kzalloc(); // alloc as102_dev_t
....
usb_register_dev();
fd = sys_open("/path/to/dev"); // open as102 fd
....
usb_deregister_dev();
....
kfree(); // free as102_dev_t
....
sys_close(fd);
as102_release() // UAF!!
as102_usb_release()
kfree(); // DFB!!
```
When a USB character device registered with usb_register_dev() is later
unregistered (via usb_deregister_dev() or disconnect), the device node is
removed so new open() calls fail. However, file descriptors that are
already open do not go away immediately: they remain valid until the last
reference is dropped and the driver's .release() is invoked.
In as102, as102_usb_probe() calls usb_register_dev() and then, on an
error path, does usb_deregister_dev() and frees as102_dev_t right away.
If userspace raced a successful open() before the deregistration, that
open FD will later hit as102_release() --> as102_usb_release() and access
or free as102_dev_t again, occur a race to use-after-free and
double-free vuln.
The fix is to never kfree(as102_dev_t) directly once usb_register_dev()
has succeeded. After deregistration, defer freeing memory to .release().
In other words, let release() perform the last kfree when the final open
FD is closed.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: syzbot+47321e8fd5a4c84088db@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=47321e8fd5a4c84088db
Fixes: cd19f7d3e39b ("[media] as102: fix leaks at failure paths in as102_usb_probe()")
Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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