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authorJeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>2026-01-10 23:58:29 +0900
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-04-22 13:32:23 +0200
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treef160d5e207e06d1c448fec122b5a0bd22082254e /tools/lib/python/kdoc/python_version.py
parent1b2820c8a9887981634020db19f1a2425558b88e (diff)
media: hackrf: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in hackrf_probe()
commit 3b7da2b4d0fe014eff181ed37e3bf832eb8ed258 upstream. In hackrf driver, the following race condition occurs: ``` CPU0 CPU1 hackrf_probe() kzalloc(); // alloc hackrf_dev .... v4l2_device_register(); .... fd = sys_open("/path/to/dev"); // open hackrf fd .... v4l2_device_unregister(); .... kfree(); // free hackrf_dev .... sys_ioctl(fd, ...); v4l2_ioctl(); video_is_registered() // UAF!! .... sys_close(fd); v4l2_release() // UAF!! hackrf_video_release() kfree(); // DFB!! ``` When a V4L2 or video device is unregistered, the device node is removed so new open() calls are blocked. However, file descriptors that are already open-and any in-flight I/O-do not terminate immediately; they remain valid until the last reference is dropped and the driver's release() is invoked. Therefore, freeing device memory on the error path after hackrf_probe() has registered dev it will lead to a race to use-after-free vuln, since those already-open handles haven't been released yet. And since release() free memory too, race to use-after-free and double-free vuln occur. To prevent this, if device is registered from probe(), it should be modified to free memory only through release() rather than calling kfree() directly. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reported-by: syzbot+6ffd76b5405c006a46b7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6ffd76b5405c006a46b7 Reported-by: syzbot+f1b20958f93d2d250727@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f1b20958f93d2d250727 Fixes: 8bc4a9ed8504 ("[media] hackrf: add support for transmitter") 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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