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media: as102: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in as102_usb_probe()
authorJeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>
Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:17:53 +0000 (00:17 +0900)
committerHans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:50:18 +0000 (10:50 +0100)
commit8bd29dbe03fc5b0f039ab2395ff37b64236d2f0c
tree28a903a942e0946e522a945789638f1013f18d47
parent3b7da2b4d0fe014eff181ed37e3bf832eb8ed258
media: as102: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in as102_usb_probe()

In as102_usb driver, the following race condition occurs:
```
CPU0 CPU1
as102_usb_probe()
  kzalloc(); // alloc as102_dev_t
  ....
  usb_register_dev();
fd = sys_open("/path/to/dev"); // open as102 fd
....
  usb_deregister_dev();
  ....
  kfree(); // free as102_dev_t
  ....
sys_close(fd);
  as102_release() // UAF!!
    as102_usb_release()
      kfree(); // DFB!!
```

When a USB character device registered with usb_register_dev() is later
unregistered (via usb_deregister_dev() or disconnect), the device node is
removed so new open() calls fail. However, file descriptors that are
already open do not go away immediately: they remain valid until the last
reference is dropped and the driver's .release() is invoked.

In as102, as102_usb_probe() calls usb_register_dev() and then, on an
error path, does usb_deregister_dev() and frees as102_dev_t right away.
If userspace raced a successful open() before the deregistration, that
open FD will later hit as102_release() --> as102_usb_release() and access
or free as102_dev_t again, occur a race to use-after-free and
double-free vuln.

The fix is to never kfree(as102_dev_t) directly once usb_register_dev()
has succeeded. After deregistration, defer freeing memory to .release().

In other words, let release() perform the last kfree when the final open
FD is closed.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: syzbot+47321e8fd5a4c84088db@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=47321e8fd5a4c84088db
Fixes: cd19f7d3e39b ("[media] as102: fix leaks at failure paths in as102_usb_probe()")
Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
drivers/media/usb/as102/as102_usb_drv.c