FAILED: patch "[PATCH] media: rc: Fix race condition during rc_register_device()" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

[<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 ec7cb49871e5c4f85d57290320c50ee0bae4db84
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026110406-staple-sheet-b1c6@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From ec7cb49871e5c4f85d57290320c50ee0bae4db84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:36:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] media: rc: Fix race condition during rc_register_device()

Device drivers can call ir_raw_event_store() or ir_raw_event_handle()
right after rc_allocate_device(). This means that while
rc_register_device() is being called, those functions can be called
from e.g. interrupt handlers.

Currently dev->raw is being allocated and populated by
ir_raw_event_prepare() which is called from rc_register_device(). This
is not done in a safe way, e.g. dev->raw is being set before the
raw members are populated.

Call ir_raw_event_prepare() from rc_allocate_device() instead.

Fixes: a3572c34da8d ("V4L/DVB: ir-core: Add logic to decode IR protocols at the IR core")
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c b/drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c
index ba24c2f22d39..46c50f423798 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c
@@ -71,9 +71,6 @@ static int ir_raw_event_thread(void *data)
  */
 int ir_raw_event_store(struct rc_dev *dev, struct ir_raw_event *ev)
 {
-	if (!dev->raw)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "sample: (%05dus %s)\n",
 		ev->duration, TO_STR(ev->pulse));
 
@@ -102,9 +99,6 @@ int ir_raw_event_store_edge(struct rc_dev *dev, bool pulse)
 	ktime_t			now;
 	struct ir_raw_event	ev = {};
 
-	if (!dev->raw)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	now = ktime_get();
 	ev.duration = ktime_to_us(ktime_sub(now, dev->raw->last_event));
 	ev.pulse = !pulse;
@@ -129,9 +123,6 @@ int ir_raw_event_store_with_timeout(struct rc_dev *dev, struct ir_raw_event *ev)
 	ktime_t		now;
 	int		rc = 0;
 
-	if (!dev->raw)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	now = ktime_get();
 
 	spin_lock(&dev->raw->edge_spinlock);
@@ -166,9 +157,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ir_raw_event_store_with_timeout);
  */
 int ir_raw_event_store_with_filter(struct rc_dev *dev, struct ir_raw_event *ev)
 {
-	if (!dev->raw)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	/* Ignore spaces in idle mode */
 	if (dev->idle && !ev->pulse)
 		return 0;
@@ -200,9 +188,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ir_raw_event_store_with_filter);
  */
 void ir_raw_event_set_idle(struct rc_dev *dev, bool idle)
 {
-	if (!dev->raw)
-		return;
-
 	dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "%s idle mode\n", idle ? "enter" : "leave");
 
 	if (idle) {
@@ -226,7 +211,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ir_raw_event_set_idle);
  */
 void ir_raw_event_handle(struct rc_dev *dev)
 {
-	if (!dev->raw || !dev->raw->thread)
+	if (!dev->raw->thread)
 		return;
 
 	wake_up_process(dev->raw->thread);
@@ -612,9 +597,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ir_raw_encode_carrier);
  */
 int ir_raw_event_prepare(struct rc_dev *dev)
 {
-	if (!dev)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	dev->raw = kzalloc_obj(*dev->raw);
 	if (!dev->raw)
 		return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
index dda3479ea3ad..d93e98189c1a 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
@@ -1701,14 +1701,24 @@ static const struct device_type rc_dev_type = {
 struct rc_dev *rc_allocate_device(enum rc_driver_type type)
 {
 	struct rc_dev *dev;
+	int ret;
 
 	dev = kzalloc_obj(*dev);
 	if (!dev)
 		return NULL;
 
+	if (type == RC_DRIVER_IR_RAW) {
+		ret = ir_raw_event_prepare(dev);
+		if (ret < 0) {
+			kfree(dev);
+			return NULL;
+		}
+	}
+
 	if (type != RC_DRIVER_IR_RAW_TX) {
 		dev->input_dev = input_allocate_device();
 		if (!dev->input_dev) {
+			ir_raw_event_free(dev);
 			kfree(dev);
 			return NULL;
 		}
@@ -1724,6 +1734,7 @@ struct rc_dev *rc_allocate_device(enum rc_driver_type type)
 		spin_lock_init(&dev->rc_map.lock);
 		spin_lock_init(&dev->keylock);
 	}
+
 	mutex_init(&dev->lock);
 
 	dev->dev.type = &rc_dev_type;
@@ -1917,12 +1928,6 @@ int rc_register_device(struct rc_dev *dev)
 		dev->sysfs_groups[attr++] = &rc_dev_wakeup_filter_attr_grp;
 	dev->sysfs_groups[attr++] = NULL;
 
-	if (dev->driver_type == RC_DRIVER_IR_RAW) {
-		rc = ir_raw_event_prepare(dev);
-		if (rc < 0)
-			goto out_minor;
-	}
-
 	if (dev->driver_type != RC_DRIVER_IR_RAW_TX) {
 		rc = rc_prepare_rx_device(dev);
 		if (rc)
@@ -1979,8 +1984,6 @@ out_dev:
 out_rx_free:
 	ir_free_table(&dev->rc_map);
 out_raw:
-	ir_raw_event_free(dev);
-out_minor:
 	ida_free(&rc_ida, minor);
 	return rc;
 }