This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: cedrus: fix use after free bug in cedrus_remove due to race condition to the 6.2-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: media-cedrus-fix-use-after-free-bug-in-cedrus_remove.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0448f6c3462150cfc1533662c2c8f4ad0769da28 Author: Zheng Wang <zyytlz.wz@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon Mar 13 16:31:20 2023 +0000 media: cedrus: fix use after free bug in cedrus_remove due to race condition [ Upstream commit 50d0a7aea4809cef87979d4669911276aa23b71f ] 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 an 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. Fixes: 7c38a551bda1 ("media: cedrus: Add watchdog for job completion") Signed-off-by: Zheng Wang <zyytlz.wz@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c index a43d5ff667163..a50a4d0a8f715 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c +++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c @@ -547,6 +547,7 @@ static int cedrus_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct cedrus_dev *dev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&dev->watchdog_work); if (media_devnode_is_registered(dev->mdev.devnode)) { media_device_unregister(&dev->mdev); v4l2_m2m_unregister_media_controller(dev->m2m_dev);