* Re: Patch "media: uvcvideo: Mark invalid entities with id UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID" has been added to the 5.15-stable tree
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@ 2026-04-08 11:35 ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2026-04-08 12:53 ` Greg KH
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From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo @ 2026-04-08 11:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable
Cc: stable-commits, Laurent Pinchart, Hans de Goede,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 06:52:35AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
> media: uvcvideo: Mark invalid entities with id UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID
>
> to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>
> The filename of the patch is:
> media-uvcvideo-mark-invalid-entities-with-id-uvc_inv.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
>
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>
>
This has not been added to the 6.1 tree yet and there is a missing followup
fix. This has a chance of regressing a few devices.
I suggest this is dropped and wait for a proper submission to both 6.1 and
5.15 containing the followup fix as well.
Regards.
Cascardo.
>
> commit c00bc51ae203f02a86b8e4fae6901f4f9bec6ea9
> Author: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com>
> Date: Wed Apr 1 16:10:48 2026 +0800
>
> media: uvcvideo: Mark invalid entities with id UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID
>
> [ Upstream commit 0e2ee70291e64a30fe36960c85294726d34a103e ]
>
> Per UVC 1.1+ specification 3.7.2, units and terminals must have a non-zero
> unique ID.
>
> ```
> Each Unit and Terminal within the video function is assigned a unique
> identification number, the Unit ID (UID) or Terminal ID (TID), contained in
> the bUnitID or bTerminalID field of the descriptor. The value 0x00 is
> reserved for undefined ID,
> ```
>
> If we add a new entity with id 0 or a duplicated ID, it will be marked
> as UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID.
>
> In a previous attempt commit 3dd075fe8ebb ("media: uvcvideo: Require
> entities to have a non-zero unique ID"), we ignored all the invalid units,
> this broke a lot of non-compatible cameras. Hopefully we are more lucky
> this time.
>
> This also prevents some syzkaller reproducers from triggering warnings due
> to a chain of entities referring to themselves. In one particular case, an
> Output Unit is connected to an Input Unit, both with the same ID of 1. But
> when looking up for the source ID of the Output Unit, that same entity is
> found instead of the input entity, which leads to such warnings.
>
> In another case, a backward chain was considered finished as the source ID
> was 0. Later on, that entity was found, but its pads were not valid.
>
> Here is a sample stack trace for one of those cases.
>
> [ 20.650953] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using dummy_hcd
> [ 20.830206] usb 1-1: Using ep0 maxpacket: 8
> [ 20.833501] usb 1-1: config 0 descriptor??
> [ 21.038518] usb 1-1: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
> [ 21.038893] usb 1-1: Found UVC 0.00 device <unnamed> (2833:0201)
> [ 21.039299] uvcvideo 1-1:0.0: Entity type for entity Output 1 was not initialized!
> [ 21.041583] uvcvideo 1-1:0.0: Entity type for entity Input 1 was not initialized!
> [ 21.042218] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 21.042536] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9 at drivers/media/mc/mc-entity.c:1147 media_create_pad_link+0x2c4/0x2e0
> [ 21.043195] Modules linked in:
> [ 21.043535] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc7-00030-g3480e43aeccf #444
> [ 21.044101] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
> [ 21.044639] Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
> [ 21.045100] RIP: 0010:media_create_pad_link+0x2c4/0x2e0
> [ 21.045508] Code: fe e8 20 01 00 00 b8 f4 ff ff ff 48 83 c4 30 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 0b eb e9 0f 0b eb 0a 0f 0b eb 06 <0f> 0b eb 02 0f 0b b8 ea ff ff ff eb d4 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00
> [ 21.046801] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000004b318 EFLAGS: 00010246
> [ 21.047227] RAX: ffff888004e5d458 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff818fccf1
> [ 21.047719] RDX: 000000000000007b RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888004313290
> [ 21.048241] RBP: ffff888004313290 R08: 0001ffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
> [ 21.048701] R10: 0000000000000013 R11: 0001888004313290 R12: 0000000000000003
> [ 21.049138] R13: ffff888004313080 R14: ffff888004313080 R15: 0000000000000000
> [ 21.049648] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88803ec00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 21.050271] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [ 21.050688] CR2: 0000592cc27635b0 CR3: 000000000431c000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0
> [ 21.051136] PKRU: 55555554
> [ 21.051331] Call Trace:
> [ 21.051480] <TASK>
> [ 21.051611] ? __warn+0xc4/0x210
> [ 21.051861] ? media_create_pad_link+0x2c4/0x2e0
> [ 21.052252] ? report_bug+0x11b/0x1a0
> [ 21.052540] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x31/0x40
> [ 21.052901] ? handle_bug+0x3d/0x70
> [ 21.053197] ? exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x50
> [ 21.053511] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
> [ 21.053924] ? media_create_pad_link+0x91/0x2e0
> [ 21.054364] ? media_create_pad_link+0x2c4/0x2e0
> [ 21.054834] ? media_create_pad_link+0x91/0x2e0
> [ 21.055131] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1e/0x40
> [ 21.055441] ? __v4l2_device_register_subdev+0x202/0x210
> [ 21.055837] uvc_mc_register_entities+0x358/0x400
> [ 21.056144] uvc_register_chains+0x1fd/0x290
> [ 21.056413] uvc_probe+0x380e/0x3dc0
> [ 21.056676] ? __lock_acquire+0x5aa/0x26e0
> [ 21.056946] ? find_held_lock+0x33/0xa0
> [ 21.057196] ? kernfs_activate+0x70/0x80
> [ 21.057533] ? usb_match_dynamic_id+0x1b/0x70
> [ 21.057811] ? find_held_lock+0x33/0xa0
> [ 21.058047] ? usb_match_dynamic_id+0x55/0x70
> [ 21.058330] ? lock_release+0x124/0x260
> [ 21.058657] ? usb_match_one_id_intf+0xa2/0x100
> [ 21.058997] usb_probe_interface+0x1ba/0x330
> [ 21.059399] really_probe+0x1ba/0x4c0
> [ 21.059662] __driver_probe_device+0xb2/0x180
> [ 21.059944] driver_probe_device+0x5a/0x100
> [ 21.060170] __device_attach_driver+0xe9/0x160
> [ 21.060427] ? __pfx___device_attach_driver+0x10/0x10
> [ 21.060872] bus_for_each_drv+0xa9/0x100
> [ 21.061312] __device_attach+0xed/0x190
> [ 21.061812] device_initial_probe+0xe/0x20
> [ 21.062229] bus_probe_device+0x4d/0xd0
> [ 21.062590] device_add+0x308/0x590
> [ 21.062912] usb_set_configuration+0x7b6/0xaf0
> [ 21.063403] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x36/0x80
> [ 21.063714] usb_probe_device+0x7b/0x130
> [ 21.063936] really_probe+0x1ba/0x4c0
> [ 21.064111] __driver_probe_device+0xb2/0x180
> [ 21.064577] driver_probe_device+0x5a/0x100
> [ 21.065019] __device_attach_driver+0xe9/0x160
> [ 21.065403] ? __pfx___device_attach_driver+0x10/0x10
> [ 21.065820] bus_for_each_drv+0xa9/0x100
> [ 21.066094] __device_attach+0xed/0x190
> [ 21.066535] device_initial_probe+0xe/0x20
> [ 21.066992] bus_probe_device+0x4d/0xd0
> [ 21.067250] device_add+0x308/0x590
> [ 21.067501] usb_new_device+0x347/0x610
> [ 21.067817] hub_event+0x156b/0x1e30
> [ 21.068060] ? process_scheduled_works+0x48b/0xaf0
> [ 21.068337] process_scheduled_works+0x5a3/0xaf0
> [ 21.068668] worker_thread+0x3cf/0x560
> [ 21.068932] ? kthread+0x109/0x1b0
> [ 21.069133] kthread+0x197/0x1b0
> [ 21.069343] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
> [ 21.069598] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
> [ 21.069908] ret_from_fork+0x32/0x40
> [ 21.070169] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
> [ 21.070424] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
> [ 21.070737] </TASK>
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+0584f746fde3d52b4675@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0584f746fde3d52b4675
> Reported-by: syzbot+dd320d114deb3f5bb79b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=dd320d114deb3f5bb79b
> Reported-by: Youngjun Lee <yjjuny.lee@samsung.com>
> Fixes: a3fbc2e6bb05 ("media: mc-entity.c: use WARN_ON, validate link pads")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com>
> Co-developed-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Johnny Hao <johnny_haocn@sina.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
> index 858fc5b26a5e5..c39c1f237d10e 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
> @@ -413,6 +413,9 @@ struct uvc_entity *uvc_entity_by_id(struct uvc_device *dev, int id)
> {
> struct uvc_entity *entity;
>
> + if (id == UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID)
> + return NULL;
> +
> list_for_each_entry(entity, &dev->entities, list) {
> if (entity->id == id)
> return entity;
> @@ -1029,14 +1032,27 @@ static const u8 uvc_media_transport_input_guid[16] =
> UVC_GUID_UVC_MEDIA_TRANSPORT_INPUT;
> static const u8 uvc_processing_guid[16] = UVC_GUID_UVC_PROCESSING;
>
> -static struct uvc_entity *uvc_alloc_entity(u16 type, u16 id,
> - unsigned int num_pads, unsigned int extra_size)
> +static struct uvc_entity *uvc_alloc_new_entity(struct uvc_device *dev, u16 type,
> + u16 id, unsigned int num_pads,
> + unsigned int extra_size)
> {
> struct uvc_entity *entity;
> unsigned int num_inputs;
> unsigned int size;
> unsigned int i;
>
> + /* Per UVC 1.1+ spec 3.7.2, the ID should be non-zero. */
> + if (id == 0) {
> + dev_err(&dev->intf->dev, "Found Unit with invalid ID 0\n");
> + id = UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID;
> + }
> +
> + /* Per UVC 1.1+ spec 3.7.2, the ID is unique. */
> + if (uvc_entity_by_id(dev, id)) {
> + dev_err(&dev->intf->dev, "Found multiple Units with ID %u\n", id);
> + id = UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID;
> + }
> +
> extra_size = roundup(extra_size, sizeof(*entity->pads));
> if (num_pads)
> num_inputs = type & UVC_TERM_OUTPUT ? num_pads : num_pads - 1;
> @@ -1046,7 +1062,7 @@ static struct uvc_entity *uvc_alloc_entity(u16 type, u16 id,
> + num_inputs;
> entity = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (entity == NULL)
> - return NULL;
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>
> entity->id = id;
> entity->type = type;
> @@ -1136,10 +1152,10 @@ static int uvc_parse_vendor_control(struct uvc_device *dev,
> break;
> }
>
> - unit = uvc_alloc_entity(UVC_VC_EXTENSION_UNIT, buffer[3],
> - p + 1, 2*n);
> - if (unit == NULL)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + unit = uvc_alloc_new_entity(dev, UVC_VC_EXTENSION_UNIT,
> + buffer[3], p + 1, 2 * n);
> + if (IS_ERR(unit))
> + return PTR_ERR(unit);
>
> memcpy(unit->guid, &buffer[4], 16);
> unit->extension.bNumControls = buffer[20];
> @@ -1249,10 +1265,10 @@ static int uvc_parse_standard_control(struct uvc_device *dev,
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> - term = uvc_alloc_entity(type | UVC_TERM_INPUT, buffer[3],
> - 1, n + p);
> - if (term == NULL)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + term = uvc_alloc_new_entity(dev, type | UVC_TERM_INPUT,
> + buffer[3], 1, n + p);
> + if (IS_ERR(term))
> + return PTR_ERR(term);
>
> if (UVC_ENTITY_TYPE(term) == UVC_ITT_CAMERA) {
> term->camera.bControlSize = n;
> @@ -1308,10 +1324,10 @@ static int uvc_parse_standard_control(struct uvc_device *dev,
> return 0;
> }
>
> - term = uvc_alloc_entity(type | UVC_TERM_OUTPUT, buffer[3],
> - 1, 0);
> - if (term == NULL)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + term = uvc_alloc_new_entity(dev, type | UVC_TERM_OUTPUT,
> + buffer[3], 1, 0);
> + if (IS_ERR(term))
> + return PTR_ERR(term);
>
> memcpy(term->baSourceID, &buffer[7], 1);
>
> @@ -1332,9 +1348,10 @@ static int uvc_parse_standard_control(struct uvc_device *dev,
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> - unit = uvc_alloc_entity(buffer[2], buffer[3], p + 1, 0);
> - if (unit == NULL)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + unit = uvc_alloc_new_entity(dev, buffer[2], buffer[3],
> + p + 1, 0);
> + if (IS_ERR(unit))
> + return PTR_ERR(unit);
>
> memcpy(unit->baSourceID, &buffer[5], p);
>
> @@ -1356,9 +1373,9 @@ static int uvc_parse_standard_control(struct uvc_device *dev,
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> - unit = uvc_alloc_entity(buffer[2], buffer[3], 2, n);
> - if (unit == NULL)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + unit = uvc_alloc_new_entity(dev, buffer[2], buffer[3], 2, n);
> + if (IS_ERR(unit))
> + return PTR_ERR(unit);
>
> memcpy(unit->baSourceID, &buffer[4], 1);
> unit->processing.wMaxMultiplier =
> @@ -1387,9 +1404,10 @@ static int uvc_parse_standard_control(struct uvc_device *dev,
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> - unit = uvc_alloc_entity(buffer[2], buffer[3], p + 1, n);
> - if (unit == NULL)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + unit = uvc_alloc_new_entity(dev, buffer[2], buffer[3],
> + p + 1, n);
> + if (IS_ERR(unit))
> + return PTR_ERR(unit);
>
> memcpy(unit->guid, &buffer[4], 16);
> unit->extension.bNumControls = buffer[20];
> @@ -1528,9 +1546,10 @@ static int uvc_gpio_parse(struct uvc_device *dev)
> return dev_err_probe(&dev->intf->dev, irq,
> "No IRQ for privacy GPIO\n");
>
> - unit = uvc_alloc_entity(UVC_EXT_GPIO_UNIT, UVC_EXT_GPIO_UNIT_ID, 0, 1);
> - if (!unit)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + unit = uvc_alloc_new_entity(dev, UVC_EXT_GPIO_UNIT,
> + UVC_EXT_GPIO_UNIT_ID, 0, 1);
> + if (IS_ERR(unit))
> + return PTR_ERR(unit);
>
> unit->gpio.gpio_privacy = gpio_privacy;
> unit->gpio.irq = irq;
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
> index 95af1591f1059..be4b746d902c6 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
> @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
> #define UVC_EXT_GPIO_UNIT 0x7ffe
> #define UVC_EXT_GPIO_UNIT_ID 0x100
>
> +#define UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID 0xffff
> +
> /* ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> * GUIDs
> */
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* Re: Patch "media: uvcvideo: Mark invalid entities with id UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID" has been added to the 5.15-stable tree
2026-04-08 11:35 ` Patch "media: uvcvideo: Mark invalid entities with id UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID" has been added to the 5.15-stable tree Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
@ 2026-04-08 12:53 ` Greg KH
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Greg KH @ 2026-04-08 12:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Cc: stable, stable-commits, Laurent Pinchart, Hans de Goede,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 08:35:29AM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2026 at 06:52:35AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> > media: uvcvideo: Mark invalid entities with id UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID
> >
> > to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> >
> > The filename of the patch is:
> > media-uvcvideo-mark-invalid-entities-with-id-uvc_inv.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
> >
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> >
> >
>
> This has not been added to the 6.1 tree yet and there is a missing followup
> fix. This has a chance of regressing a few devices.
>
> I suggest this is dropped and wait for a proper submission to both 6.1 and
> 5.15 containing the followup fix as well.
Now dropped, thanks.
greg k-h
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