[PATCH 6.6 122/166] media: as102: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in as102_usb_probe()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-24T13:40:09Z

From: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>

commit 8bd29dbe03fc5b0f039ab2395ff37b64236d2f0c upstream.

In as102_usb driver, the following race condition occurs:
```
CPU0 CPU1
as102_usb_probe()
kzalloc(); // alloc as102_dev_t
....
usb_register_dev();
fd = sys_open("/path/to/dev"); // open as102 fd
....
usb_deregister_dev();
....
kfree(); // free as102_dev_t
....
sys_close(fd);
as102_release() // UAF!!
as102_usb_release()
kfree(); // DFB!!
```

When a USB character device registered with usb_register_dev() is later
unregistered (via usb_deregister_dev() or disconnect), the device node is
removed so new open() calls fail. However, file descriptors that are
already open do not go away immediately: they remain valid until the last
reference is dropped and the driver's .release() is invoked.

In as102, as102_usb_probe() calls usb_register_dev() and then, on an
error path, does usb_deregister_dev() and frees as102_dev_t right away.
If userspace raced a successful open() before the deregistration, that
open FD will later hit as102_release() --> as102_usb_release() and access
or free as102_dev_t again, occur a race to use-after-free and
double-free vuln.

The fix is to never kfree(as102_dev_t) directly once usb_register_dev()
has succeeded. After deregistration, defer freeing memory to .release().

In other words, let release() perform the last kfree when the final open
FD is closed.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: syzbot+47321e8fd5a4c84088db@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=47321e8fd5a4c84088db
Fixes: cd19f7d3e39b ("[media] as102: fix leaks at failure paths in as102_usb_probe()")
Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/media/usb/as102/as102_usb_drv.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/media/usb/as102/as102_usb_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/as102/as102_usb_drv.c
@@ -403,7 +403,9 @@ static int as102_usb_probe(struct usb_in
failed_dvb:
as102_free_usb_stream_buffer(as102_dev);
failed_stream:
+ usb_set_intfdata(intf, NULL);
usb_deregister_dev(intf, &as102_usb_class_driver);
+ return ret;
failed:
usb_put_dev(as102_dev->bus_adap.usb_dev);
usb_set_intfdata(intf, NULL);