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media: mtk-jpeg: fix use-after-free in release path due to uncancelled work
authorFan Wu <fanwu01@zju.edu.cn>
Wed, 4 Mar 2026 03:19:34 +0000 (03:19 +0000)
committerHans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:18:34 +0000 (11:18 +0100)
commit34c519feef3e4fcff1078dc8bdb25fbbbd10303f
tree444d2b3645c8adcb52c69193dcf6ea9297e7e6e0
parentf1670645365515ffeae100073603246a622ad3bf
media: mtk-jpeg: fix use-after-free in release path due to uncancelled work

The mtk_jpeg_release() function frees the context structure (ctx) without
first cancelling any pending or running work in ctx->jpeg_work. This
creates a race window where the workqueue callback may still be accessing
the context memory after it has been freed.

Race condition:

    CPU 0 (release)                    CPU 1 (workqueue)
    ----------------                   ------------------
    close()
      mtk_jpeg_release()
                                       mtk_jpegenc_worker()
                                         ctx = work->data
                                         // accessing ctx

        kfree(ctx)  // freed!
                                         access ctx  // UAF!

The work is queued via queue_work() during JPEG encode/decode operations
(via mtk_jpeg_device_run). If the device is closed while work is pending
or running, the work handler will access freed memory.

Fix this by calling cancel_work_sync() BEFORE acquiring the mutex. This
ordering is critical: if cancel_work_sync() is called after mutex_lock(),
and the work handler also tries to acquire the same mutex, it would cause
a deadlock.

Note: The open error path does NOT need cancel_work_sync() because
INIT_WORK() only initializes the work structure - it does not schedule
it. Work is only scheduled later during ioctl operations.

Fixes: 5fb1c2361e56 ("mtk-jpegenc: add jpeg encode worker interface")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <fanwu01@zju.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
drivers/media/platform/mediatek/jpeg/mtk_jpeg_core.c