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media: rtl2832: fix use-after-free in rtl2832_remove()
authorDeepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:47:34 +0000 (20:17 +0530)
committerHans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
Wed, 6 May 2026 07:05:56 +0000 (09:05 +0200)
commit680daf40a82d483949f87f0d8f98639dc47e610c
tree3a68dff19e088d57674c29ff269b7ddcc98b1a0b
parentcc20e81da6d99926f94fad7af21f75c07e865769
media: rtl2832: fix use-after-free in rtl2832_remove()

cancel_delayed_work_sync() is called before i2c_mux_del_adapters()
in rtl2832_remove(). While the cancel waits for any running instance
of i2c_gate_work to finish, it does not prevent the timer from being
rescheduled by a concurrent thread.

During probe, the r820t_attach() call attempts I2C transfers through
the mux adapter. These transfers go through i2c_mux_master_xfer(),
which calls rtl2832_deselect() after the transfer completes,
rescheduling i2c_gate_work via schedule_delayed_work(). If this
transfer is still in flight when rtl2832_remove() runs,
rtl2832_deselect() can reschedule i2c_gate_work after it has been
cancelled, causing a use-after-free when kfree(dev) is called.

Fix this by calling i2c_mux_del_adapters() before
cancel_delayed_work_sync(). Once the mux adapter is unregistered, no
new I2C transfers can go through it, so rtl2832_deselect() can no
longer reschedule i2c_gate_work. The subsequent
cancel_delayed_work_sync() is then guaranteed to be final.

Fixes: cddcc40b1b15 ("[media] rtl2832: convert to use an explicit i2c mux core")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+019ced393ab913002b75@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=019ced393ab913002b75
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2832.c