csi2dc_of_parse() ends up calling csi2dc_prepare_notifier(), which
registers the V4L2 async notifier with v4l2_async_nf_register(). The
probe error label csi2dc_probe_cleanup_notifier is reached after
csi2dc_of_parse() has already succeeded (e.g. when media entity init,
csi2dc_power() or v4l2_async_register_subdev() fail), but it calls only
v4l2_async_nf_cleanup() and never v4l2_async_nf_unregister().

The notifier therefore stays chained in the global notifier_list while
the enclosing struct csi2dc_device is freed, leading to list corruption
and a use-after-free when the list is next walked.

Unregister the notifier before cleaning it up on the error path,
matching the teardown already done in csi2dc_remove().

Fixes: 2de0b3c0f678 ("media: atmel: introduce microchip csi2dc driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4
Signed-off-by: Cong Nguyen <congnt264@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/media/platform/microchip/microchip-csi2dc.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/microchip/microchip-csi2dc.c b/drivers/media/platform/microchip/microchip-csi2dc.c
index 70303a0b6919..59574258ab2b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/microchip/microchip-csi2dc.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/microchip/microchip-csi2dc.c
@@ -736,6 +736,7 @@ static int csi2dc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return 0;
 
 csi2dc_probe_cleanup_notifier:
+	v4l2_async_nf_unregister(&csi2dc->notifier);
 	v4l2_async_nf_cleanup(&csi2dc->notifier);
 csi2dc_probe_cleanup_entity:
 	media_entity_cleanup(&csi2dc->csi2dc_sd.entity);
-- 
2.25.1

On 8/8/26 12:07, Cong Nguyen wrote:
> csi2dc_of_parse() ends up calling csi2dc_prepare_notifier(), which
> registers the V4L2 async notifier with v4l2_async_nf_register(). The
> probe error label csi2dc_probe_cleanup_notifier is reached after
> csi2dc_of_parse() has already succeeded (e.g. when media entity init,
> csi2dc_power() or v4l2_async_register_subdev() fail), but it calls only
> v4l2_async_nf_cleanup() and never v4l2_async_nf_unregister().
> 
> The notifier therefore stays chained in the global notifier_list while
> the enclosing struct csi2dc_device is freed, leading to list corruption
> and a use-after-free when the list is next walked.
> 
> Unregister the notifier before cleaning it up on the error path,
> matching the teardown already done in csi2dc_remove().
> 
> Fixes: 2de0b3c0f678 ("media: atmel: introduce microchip csi2dc driver")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4
> Signed-off-by: Cong Nguyen <congnt264@gmail.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Eugen Hristev <ehristev@kernel.org>