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[PATCH 5.13 169/800] media: v4l2-core: Avoid the dangling pointer in v4l2_fh_release

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-07-12 08:19:42
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: media input infrastructure (v4l/dvb), the rest · Maintainers: Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Linus Torvalds

From: Lv Yunlong <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 7dd0c9e547b6924e18712b6b51aa3cba1896ee2c ]

A use after free bug caused by the dangling pointer
filp->privitate_data in v4l2_fh_release.
See https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1419058/.

My patch sets the dangling pointer to NULL to provide
robust.

Signed-off-by: Lv Yunlong <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c
index 684574f58e82..90eec79ee995 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ int v4l2_fh_release(struct file *filp)
 		v4l2_fh_del(fh);
 		v4l2_fh_exit(fh);
 		kfree(fh);
+		filp->private_data = NULL;
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.30.2


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