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authorJeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>2026-01-11 00:17:53 +0900
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-04-22 13:30:52 +0200
commit2eeae47a438694408189138048a786be99954032 (patch)
treed8907ebd7b74bcb2fb2b38d1c2529f4e2ba7b816 /tools/lib/python/kdoc/python_version.py
parent1c52ef00e391144334f10995985c2f256d4be982 (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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