This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: bttv: fix use after free error due to btv->timeout timer to the 5.15-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-bttv-fix-use-after-free-error-due-to-btv-timeo.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit dd2954050ae6d0c26c2eae1ab5fb30b2e678c543 Author: Zheng Wang <zyytlz.wz@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu Apr 13 11:49:42 2023 +0800 media: bttv: fix use after free error due to btv->timeout timer [ Upstream commit bd5b50b329e850d467e7bcc07b2b6bde3752fbda ] There may be some a race condition between timer function bttv_irq_timeout and bttv_remove. The timer is setup in probe and there is no timer_delete operation in remove function. When it hit kfree btv, the function might still be invoked, which will cause use after free bug. This bug is found by static analysis, it may be false positive. Fix it by adding del_timer_sync invoking to the remove function. cpu0 cpu1 bttv_probe ->timer_setup ->bttv_set_dma ->mod_timer; bttv_remove ->kfree(btv); ->bttv_irq_timeout ->USE btv Fixes: 162e6376ac58 ("media: pci: Convert timers to use timer_setup()") Signed-off-by: Zheng Wang <zyytlz.wz@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c index 661ebfa7bf3f5..c4bf7b7109ce4 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c @@ -4250,6 +4250,7 @@ static void bttv_remove(struct pci_dev *pci_dev) /* free resources */ free_irq(btv->c.pci->irq,btv); + del_timer_sync(&btv->timeout); iounmap(btv->bt848_mmio); release_mem_region(pci_resource_start(btv->c.pci,0), pci_resource_len(btv->c.pci,0));