The original code uses cancel_delayed_work() in xc5000_release(), which
does not guarantee that the delayed work item timer_sleep has fully
completed if it was already running. This leads to use-after-free scenarios
where xc5000_release() may free the xc5000_priv while timer_sleep is still
active and attempts to dereference the device.
A typical race condition is illustrated below:
CPU 0 (release thread) | CPU 1 (delayed work callback)
xc5000_release() | xc5000_do_timer_sleep()
cancel_delayed_work() |
hybrid_tuner_release_state(priv) |
| priv = container_of() // UAF
Replace cancel_delayed_work() with cancel_delayed_work_sync() to ensure
that the timer_sleep is properly canceled before the xc5000_priv memory
is deallocated.
A deadlock concern was considered: xc5000_release() is called in a process
context and is not holding any locks that the timer_sleep work item might
also need. Therefore, the use of the _sync() variant is safe here.
Fixes: f7a27ff1fb77 ("[media] xc5000: delay tuner sleep to 5 seconds")
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
---
drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c b/drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c
index 30aa4ee958bd..ec9a3cd4784e 100644
--- a/drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c
+++ b/drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c
@@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@ static void xc5000_release(struct dvb_frontend *fe)
mutex_lock(&xc5000_list_mutex);
if (priv) {
- cancel_delayed_work(&priv->timer_sleep);
+ cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->timer_sleep);
hybrid_tuner_release_state(priv);
}
--
2.34.1