FAILED: patch "[PATCH] media: tuner: xc5000: Fix use-after-free in xc5000_release

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 40b7a19f321e65789612ebaca966472055dab48c
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025100340-pleat-amusable-e5dc@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..

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thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 40b7a19f321e65789612ebaca966472055dab48c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:56:08 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] media: tuner: xc5000: Fix use-after-free in xc5000_release

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 xc5000_priv.

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)     |
    kfree(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.

This bug was initially identified through static analysis.

Fixes: f7a27ff1fb77 ("[media] xc5000: delay tuner sleep to 5 seconds")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
[hverkuil: fix typo in Subject: tunner -> tuner]

diff --git a/drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c b/drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c
index bf4ff461e082..a28481edd22e 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);
 	}