[PATCH 6.6 088/567] media: dvb-core: fix wrong reinitialization of ringbuffer on reopen

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-23T14:55:47Z

6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

commit bfbc0b5b32a8f28ce284add619bf226716a59bc0 upstream.

dvb_dvr_open() calls dvb_ringbuffer_init() when a new reader opens the
DVR device. dvb_ringbuffer_init() calls init_waitqueue_head(), which
reinitializes the waitqueue list head to empty.

Since dmxdev->dvr_buffer.queue is a shared waitqueue (all opens of the
same DVR device share it), this orphans any existing waitqueue entries
from io_uring poll or epoll, leaving them with stale prev/next pointers
while the list head is reset to {self, self}.

The waitqueue and spinlock in dvr_buffer are already properly
initialized once in dvb_dmxdev_init(). The open path only needs to
reset the buffer data pointer, size, and read/write positions.

Replace the dvb_ringbuffer_init() call in dvb_dvr_open() with direct
assignment of data/size and a call to dvb_ringbuffer_reset(), which
properly resets pread, pwrite, and error with correct memory ordering
without touching the waitqueue or spinlock.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 34731df288a5f ("V4L/DVB (3501): Dmxdev: use dvb_ringbuffer")
Reported-by: syzbot+ab12f0c08dd7ab8d057c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+ab12f0c08dd7ab8d057c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/698a26d3.050a0220.3b3015.007d.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c
@@ -168,7 +168,9 @@ static int dvb_dvr_open(struct inode *in
mutex_unlock(&dmxdev->mutex);
return -ENOMEM;
}
- dvb_ringbuffer_init(&dmxdev->dvr_buffer, mem, DVR_BUFFER_SIZE);
+ dmxdev->dvr_buffer.data = mem;
+ dmxdev->dvr_buffer.size = DVR_BUFFER_SIZE;
+ dvb_ringbuffer_reset(&dmxdev->dvr_buffer);
if (dmxdev->may_do_mmap)
dvb_vb2_init(&dmxdev->dvr_vb2_ctx, "dvr",
file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK);