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[PATCH] media: cedrus: fix use after free bug in cedrus_remove due to race condition

From: Zheng Wang <hidden>
Date: 2023-03-08 03:24:31
Also in: linux-media, linux-staging, linux-sunxi, lkml
Subsystem: allwinner vpu driver, media input infrastructure (v4l/dvb), staging subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: Maxime Ripard, Paul Kocialkowski, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus Torvalds

In cedrus_probe, dev->watchdog_work is bound with cedrus_watchdog function.
In cedrus_device_run, it will started by schedule_delayed_work. If there is
unfinished work in cedrus_remove, there may be a race condition and trigger
UAF bug.

CPU0                  CPU1

                    |cedrus_watchdog
cedrus_remove       |
  v4l2_m2m_release  |
  kfree(m2m_dev)    |
                    |
                    | v4l2_m2m_get_curr_priv
                    |   m2m_dev //use

Fix it by canceling the worker in cedrus_remove.

Signed-off-by: Zheng Wang <redacted>
---
 drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
index a43d5ff66716..c95d011c0817 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ static int cedrus_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 static int cedrus_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct cedrus_dev *dev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
-
+	cancel_delayed_work(&dev->watchdog_work);
 	if (media_devnode_is_registered(dev->mdev.devnode)) {
 		media_device_unregister(&dev->mdev);
 		v4l2_m2m_unregister_media_controller(dev->m2m_dev);
-- 
2.25.1


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