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* [PATCH v3] media: v4l2-core: fix a use-after-free bug of sd->devnode
@ 2019-11-20 12:22 Dafna Hirschfeld
  2020-01-16 11:57 ` Hans Verkuil
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dafna Hirschfeld @ 2019-11-20 12:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-media
  Cc: dafna.hirschfeld, hverkuil, dafna3, helen.koike, ezequiel, stable

sd->devnode is released after calling
v4l2_subdev_release. Therefore it should be set
to NULL so that the subdev won't hold a pointer
to a released object. This fixes a reference
after free bug in function
v4l2_device_unregister_subdev

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0e43734d4c46e ("media: v4l2-subdev: add release() internal op")
Signed-off-by: Dafna Hirschfeld <dafna.hirschfeld@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com>
---
changes since v2:
- since this is a regresion fix, I added Fixes and Cc to stable tags,
- change the commit title and log to be more clear.

 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c
index 63d6b147b21e..2b3595671d62 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-device.c
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ static void v4l2_subdev_release(struct v4l2_subdev *sd)
 {
 	struct module *owner = !sd->owner_v4l2_dev ? sd->owner : NULL;
 
+	sd->devnode = NULL;
 	if (sd->internal_ops && sd->internal_ops->release)
 		sd->internal_ops->release(sd);
 	module_put(owner);
-- 
2.20.1


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2019-11-20 12:22 [PATCH v3] media: v4l2-core: fix a use-after-free bug of sd->devnode Dafna Hirschfeld
2020-01-16 11:57 ` Hans Verkuil
2020-01-17 10:35   ` Dafna Hirschfeld
2020-01-17 10:46     ` Hans Verkuil
2020-01-17 10:52       ` Dafna Hirschfeld
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