Syzbot triggered a use after free in v5.5-rc6: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in v4l2_release+0x2f1/0x390 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:459 Allocated by task 94: usbvision_alloc drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c:1315 [inline] usbvision_probe.cold+0x5c5/0x1f21 drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c:1469 Freed by task 1913: kfree+0xd5/0x300 mm/slub.c:3957 usbvision_release+0x181/0x1c0 drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c:1364 usbvision_radio_close.cold+0x2b/0x74 drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c:1130 v4l2_release+0x2e7/0x390 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:455 The problem is that the v4l2_release() calls usbvision_release() which frees "usbvision" but v4l2_release() still wants to use "usbvision->vdev". One solution is to make this devm_ allocated memory so the memory isn't freed until later. Reported-by: syzbot+75287f75e2fedd69d680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- I copied this idea from a different driver, but I haven't tested it. I wanted to try the #syz fix command to see if it works. drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c b/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c index 93d36aab824f..07b4763062c4 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c @@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ static struct usb_usbvision *usbvision_alloc(struct usb_device *dev, { struct usb_usbvision *usbvision; - usbvision = kzalloc(sizeof(*usbvision), GFP_KERNEL); + usbvision = devm_kzalloc(&dev->dev, sizeof(*usbvision), GFP_KERNEL); if (!usbvision) return NULL; @@ -1336,7 +1336,6 @@ static struct usb_usbvision *usbvision_alloc(struct usb_device *dev, v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(&usbvision->hdl); v4l2_device_unregister(&usbvision->v4l2_dev); err_free: - kfree(usbvision); return NULL; } @@ -1361,7 +1360,6 @@ static void usbvision_release(struct usb_usbvision *usbvision) v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(&usbvision->hdl); v4l2_device_unregister(&usbvision->v4l2_dev); - kfree(usbvision); PDEBUG(DBG_PROBE, "success"); } -- 2.11.0