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media: hackrf: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in hackrf_probe()
authorJeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:58:29 +0000 (23:58 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:30:52 +0000 (13:30 +0200)
commit2145c71a8044362e82e9923f001ba2aeb771b848
tree574ee9556980c634e687d2383242753df853394e
parent57b01d945ed68cebe486d495dadc4901a96d3aaa
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>
drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c