From: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>,
"Lad, Prabhakar" <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>,
Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] [media] usbvision-video: two use after frees
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 08:23:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <543F8069.8020005@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1494643.LQNyJpdPt6@avalon>
On 10/16/2014 10:09 AM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Thursday 16 October 2014 10:57:21 Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> The lock has been freed in usbvision_release() so there is no need to
>> call mutex_unlock() here.
>
> Yuck :-/
>
> The driver should really be converted to use video_device::release. That might
> be out of scope for this fix though. Is usbvision maintained ?
I have hardware, and at some point I plan to convert it to modern frameworks.
But ENOTIME for now. So I guess I might be the closest to a being a maintainer.
Regards,
Hans
>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c
>> b/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c index 68bc961..9bfa041
>> 100644
>> --- a/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c
>> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c
>> @@ -446,6 +446,7 @@ static int usbvision_v4l2_close(struct file *file)
>> if (usbvision->remove_pending) {
>> printk(KERN_INFO "%s: Final disconnect\n", __func__);
>> usbvision_release(usbvision);
>> + return 0;
>> }
>> mutex_unlock(&usbvision->v4l2_lock);
>>
>> @@ -1221,6 +1222,7 @@ static int usbvision_radio_close(struct file *file)
>> if (usbvision->remove_pending) {
>> printk(KERN_INFO "%s: Final disconnect\n", __func__);
>> usbvision_release(usbvision);
>> + return err_code;
>> }
>>
>> mutex_unlock(&usbvision->v4l2_lock);
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-16 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-16 7:57 [patch] [media] usbvision-video: two use after frees Dan Carpenter
2014-10-16 8:09 ` Laurent Pinchart
2014-10-16 8:23 ` Hans Verkuil [this message]
2014-10-16 8:25 ` Laurent Pinchart
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