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media: tuner: xc5000: Fix use-after-free in xc5000_release
authorDuoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Fri, 3 Oct 2025 20:43:26 +0000 (16:43 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:56:21 +0000 (11:56 +0200)
commitdf0303b4839520b84d9367c2fad65b13650a4d42
tree8463ebf8ba090a9bf85543e4eea5ded7282af011
parentb27e1d72ee8ec565ba0cbd6d5559e23a81aca63a
media: tuner: xc5000: Fix use-after-free in xc5000_release

[ Upstream commit 40b7a19f321e65789612ebaca966472055dab48c ]

The original code uses cancel_delayed_work() in xc5000_release(), which
does not guarantee that the delayed work item timer_sleep has fully
completed if it was already running. This leads to use-after-free scenarios
where xc5000_release() may free the xc5000_priv while timer_sleep is still
active and attempts to dereference the xc5000_priv.

A typical race condition is illustrated below:

CPU 0 (release thread)                 | CPU 1 (delayed work callback)
xc5000_release()                       | xc5000_do_timer_sleep()
  cancel_delayed_work()                |
  hybrid_tuner_release_state(priv)     |
    kfree(priv)                        |
                                       |   priv = container_of() // UAF

Replace cancel_delayed_work() with cancel_delayed_work_sync() to ensure
that the timer_sleep is properly canceled before the xc5000_priv memory
is deallocated.

A deadlock concern was considered: xc5000_release() is called in a process
context and is not holding any locks that the timer_sleep work item might
also need. Therefore, the use of the _sync() variant is safe here.

This bug was initially identified through static analysis.

Fixes: f7a27ff1fb77 ("[media] xc5000: delay tuner sleep to 5 seconds")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
[hverkuil: fix typo in Subject: tunner -> tuner]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c