From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jeffin Philip <jeffinphilip14@gmail.com>
Cc: xu.yang_2@nxp.com, Frank.Li@nxp.com,
panjunzhong@linux.spacemit.com, kees@kernel.org,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+8dcac923582c28505fd7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] usb: gadget: uvc: Fix Null Pointer Dereference in uvcg_video_init()
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:08:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026073054-shaky-radar-da75@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260730070207.16065-1-jeffinphilip14@gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 12:32:07PM +0530, Jeffin Philip wrote:
> In uvcg_video_init(), if kthread_run_worker() fails,
> the error logged uses uvcg_err(), however, the pointer it uses:
> video->uvc is not assigned at this point, triggering a null
> pointer dereference. Fix this by directly using uvc->func which
> is assigned already.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+8dcac923582c28505fd7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8dcac923582c28505fd7
> Fixes: 7ea95b110811fa8e41f5960c278bcfc80b8b21c1 (usb: gadget: uvc: rename functions to avoid conflicts with host uvc)
Can you please shorten the sha1, like the documentation should have
mentioned? And did checkpatch.pl catch this?
thanks,
greg k-h
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2026-07-30 7:02 [PATCH v2] usb: gadget: uvc: Fix Null Pointer Dereference in uvcg_video_init() Jeffin Philip
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