If the user yanks out the cable before closing the file, dev->udev would be set to NULL therefore causing a null-ptr-deref in hackrf_ctrl_msg issued by hackrf_stop_streaming. This patch adds a check in hackrf_ctrl_msg before using dev->udev. Found by modified syzkaller. BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in hackrf_ctrl_msg+0x6d/0x180 drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c:195 Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000000 by task syz-executor/579 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x5e/0x7c lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_report.cold+0x49a/0x6bb mm/kasan/report.c:436 kasan_report+0xa8/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:495 hackrf_ctrl_msg+0x6d/0x180 drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c:195 hackrf_stop_streaming+0x45/0x140 drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c:869 __vb2_queue_cancel+0x5c/0x550 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:1992 vb2_core_streamoff+0x2f/0xb0 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:2149 __vb2_cleanup_fileio+0x3e/0xa0 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:2710 vb2_core_queue_release+0x1a/0x50 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:2430 vb2_queue_release drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c:947 [inline] _vb2_fop_release+0x110/0x140 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c:1132 v4l2_release+0x1b9/0x1e0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:459 __fput+0x12d/0x4b0 fs/file_table.c:320 task_work_run+0xa8/0xf0 kernel/task_work.c:177 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline] exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:169 [inline] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x123/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:201 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:283 [inline] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x22/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:294 do_syscall_64+0x48/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd Signed-off-by: Mingxuan Xiang <mx_xiang@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c b/drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c index 9c0ecd5f056c..9588b8aa6e98 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c @@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ static int hackrf_ctrl_msg(struct hackrf_dev *dev, u8 request, u16 value, unsigned int pipe; u8 requesttype; + if (!dev->udev) { + pr_err("udev is null in %s\n", __func__); + ret = -EINVAL; + goto err; + } switch (request) { case CMD_SET_TRANSCEIVER_MODE: case CMD_SET_FREQ: -- 2.43.0