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[95.239.230.248]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4a17f486b6fsm88071375e9.1.2026.10.07.21.26.29 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:26:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicola Fiorillo To: Sakari Ailus Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Hans Verkuil , Laurent Pinchart , Nguyen Ngoc Thang , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] media: v4l2-subdev: Fix NULL dereferences racing with unbind Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2026 06:25:58 +0200 Message-ID: <20261008042600.275884-1-nicfio@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-media@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, v4l2_device_unregister_subdev() clears sd->v4l2_dev and, through media_gobj_destroy(), sd->entity.graph_obj.mdev before it unregisters the sub-device node, and drivers that call media_device_unregister() first, as vimc does, clear the latter even earlier. subdev_open() dereferences both pointers, and the EXT_CTRLS ioctls the first one, so a driver unbind racing with an open or an ioctl on the node oopses. syzbot hits the open() case by unbinding vimc. Patch 2/3 of v2, now patch 1, checked the two pointers in subdev_open(). That only narrows the race: the sub-device can be unregistered right after the check. A patch along the same lines was also posted in [1]. This version takes a different approach: it stops reading the sub-device's registration state in these file operations and uses the node's own vdev->v4l2_dev instead, which unregistration never clears. subdev_open() and the EXT_CTRLS ioctls no longer read a pointer that the V4L2 core or the driver core clears when a driver is unbound. What this does not fix is the lifetime of the sub-device and of the media device when a driver goes away with file handles open, which is the known limitation Sakari mentioned on v2 [2]. The commit messages say so. Changes since v2: - Patch 1 (was 2/3): use vdev->v4l2_dev->mdev instead of checking sd->v4l2_dev and sd->entity.graph_obj.mdev, and fail with -ENODEV if the media device's driver has been unbound meanwhile. - Patch 2 is new: the same dereference of sd->v4l2_dev in the EXT_CTRLS ioctls, found by reading the code. - Dropped the two ipu6 patches of v2 (1/3 and 3/3), as I said I would in [3]. - Rebased on media next. Testing: - Built with W=1 (allmodconfig) at each patch of the series on media next 8e26d4c20ed2. - Run in QEMU/KVM (x86_64, 4 vCPUs, KASAN generic inline, vimc built in) on media next 2dcdfb625c3b, which has the same v4l2-subdev.c, one boot per 60 s run. 16 threads either open and close vimc's sub-device nodes, or loop on VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS on handles they keep open across unbinds, while another thread unbinds and rebinds vimc through sysfs every 1 or 30 ms. Each oops kills the thread that hits it; the test re-creates up to 100 per run, so the counts are capped: kernel open() runs EXT_CTRLS runs media next 116 + 116 oops - + patch 1 0 + 0 116 + 116 oops + patches 1 and 2 0 + 0 0 + 0 The oopses are KASAN null-ptr-derefs in subdev_open() and subdev_do_ioctl() respectively. The EXT_CTRLS runs are not done on plain media next, since they open the nodes too and would oops in subdev_open() as well. The open() runs with patch 1 and all the runs with both patches showed no oops, KASAN report or warning at all: about 8 million successful opens, 1.1 million opens refused with -ENODEV while vimc was being unbound (the test does not tell v4l2_open()'s own check from the new one), and, with both patches, 880 million EXT_CTRLS ioctls. - Run on the IPU6 tablet where I first hit the open() oops (Intel N100, Chuwi Hi10 X1), with two GalaxyCore sensors, GC5035 and GC8034, whose drivers I have not posted yet. Kernel: media next 9cfc1aca0781 plus those drivers and their ipu-bridge and int3472 changes, with KASAN (generic inline), lockdep and UBSAN. 4 processes either open and close every sub-device node, or loop on VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS on the sensor's node, keeping it open across unbinds, while the sensor's I2C driver is unbound and rebound 300 times through sysfs. One run per sensor and test: kernel open() runs EXT_CTRLS runs media next oops at the 4th - unbind of the first + patches 1 and 2 0 + 0 0 + 0 On media next the oops is the KASAN null-ptr-deref in subdev_open(). The test stops at the first oops, so the other runs were not done there, and the tablet gives no before and after for patch 2. With both patches: 2.9 million successful opens, 1048 refused with -ENODEV (again from either check), 81 million EXT_CTRLS ioctls, and v4l2-compliance and a 10-frame capture from each sensor still pass after the runs. One warning in the open() run on GC5035: DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->magic != lock), from __v4l2_subdev_state_alloc() in subdev_open(). The GC5035 driver uses its control handler's mutex as the state lock, and the open took it after the unbind had destroyed it in v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(): that is the lifetime limitation above, which these patches do not touch. - syzbot has not tested the series: its report has no public reproducer. - I can post the test program if that helps. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20260919162709.314464-1-ngocthang2710.1999@gmail.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/aqUoLr0JFGEBiJIf@kekkonen.localdomain/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/178921203630.98144.13238972861597227362@gmail.com/ Nicola Fiorillo (2): media: v4l2-subdev: Fix NULL pointer dereference in subdev_open() media: v4l2-subdev: Fix NULL pointer dereference in the EXT_CTRLS ioctls drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) base-commit: 8e26d4c20ed218db6c3123480a4a4e2545680566 -- 2.47.3