From: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
To: mchehab@kernel.org
Cc: kees@kernel.org, peda@axentia.se, wsa@kernel.org, crope@iki.fi,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+019ced393ab913002b75@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] media: rtl2832: fix use-after-free in rtl2832_remove()
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:12:21 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260422144221.25544-1-kartikey406@gmail.com> (raw)
cancel_delayed_work_sync() is called before i2c_mux_del_adapters()
in rtl2832_remove(). While the cancel waits for any running instance
of i2c_gate_work to finish, it does not prevent the timer from being
rescheduled by a concurrent thread.
During probe, the r820t_attach() call attempts I2C transfers through
the mux adapter. These transfers go through i2c_mux_master_xfer(),
which calls rtl2832_deselect() after the transfer completes,
rescheduling i2c_gate_work via schedule_delayed_work(). If this
transfer is still in flight when rtl2832_remove() runs,
rtl2832_deselect() can reschedule i2c_gate_work after it has been
cancelled, causing a use-after-free when kfree(dev) is called.
Fix this by calling i2c_mux_del_adapters() before
cancel_delayed_work_sync(). Once the mux adapter is unregistered, no
new I2C transfers can go through it, so rtl2832_deselect() can no
longer reschedule i2c_gate_work. The subsequent
cancel_delayed_work_sync() is then guaranteed to be final.
Fixes: cddcc40b1b15 ("[media] rtl2832: convert to use an explicit i2c mux core")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+019ced393ab913002b75@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=019ced393ab913002b75
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
---
v2:
- Fix Signed-off-by email address (lowercase k)
- Add Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org for stable backport
---
drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2832.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2832.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2832.c
index d8e1546aea5e..9898f729304a 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2832.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2832.c
@@ -1115,10 +1115,10 @@ static void rtl2832_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
dev_dbg(&client->dev, "\n");
- cancel_delayed_work_sync(&dev->i2c_gate_work);
-
i2c_mux_del_adapters(dev->muxc);
+ cancel_delayed_work_sync(&dev->i2c_gate_work);
+
regmap_exit(dev->regmap);
kfree(dev);
--
2.43.0
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