From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>,
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y] media: rc: Fix race condition during rc_register_device()
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 22:44:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261105034402.1228887-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026110406-staple-sheet-b1c6@gregkh>
From: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
[ Upstream commit ec7cb49871e5c4f85d57290320c50ee0bae4db84 ]
Device drivers can call ir_raw_event_store() or ir_raw_event_handle()
right after rc_allocate_device(). This means that while
rc_register_device() is being called, those functions can be called
from e.g. interrupt handlers.
Currently dev->raw is being allocated and populated by
ir_raw_event_prepare() which is called from rc_register_device(). This
is not done in a safe way, e.g. dev->raw is being set before the
raw members are populated.
Call ir_raw_event_prepare() from rc_allocate_device() instead.
Fixes: a3572c34da8d ("V4L/DVB: ir-core: Add logic to decode IR protocols at the IR core")
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
[ sashal: adjusted allocation context for kzalloc() with explicit sizes and GFP_KERNEL instead of kzalloc_obj() ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c | 20 +-------------------
drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c | 19 +++++++++++--------
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c b/drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c
index c65bba4ec4739..d695ca6eaa579 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/rc-ir-raw.c
@@ -73,9 +73,6 @@ static int ir_raw_event_thread(void *data)
*/
int ir_raw_event_store(struct rc_dev *dev, struct ir_raw_event *ev)
{
- if (!dev->raw)
- return -EINVAL;
-
dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "sample: (%05dus %s)\n",
ev->duration, TO_STR(ev->pulse));
@@ -104,9 +101,6 @@ int ir_raw_event_store_edge(struct rc_dev *dev, bool pulse)
ktime_t now;
struct ir_raw_event ev = {};
- if (!dev->raw)
- return -EINVAL;
-
now = ktime_get();
ev.duration = ktime_to_us(ktime_sub(now, dev->raw->last_event));
ev.pulse = !pulse;
@@ -131,9 +125,6 @@ int ir_raw_event_store_with_timeout(struct rc_dev *dev, struct ir_raw_event *ev)
ktime_t now;
int rc = 0;
- if (!dev->raw)
- return -EINVAL;
-
now = ktime_get();
spin_lock(&dev->raw->edge_spinlock);
@@ -168,9 +159,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ir_raw_event_store_with_timeout);
*/
int ir_raw_event_store_with_filter(struct rc_dev *dev, struct ir_raw_event *ev)
{
- if (!dev->raw)
- return -EINVAL;
-
/* Ignore spaces in idle mode */
if (dev->idle && !ev->pulse)
return 0;
@@ -202,9 +190,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ir_raw_event_store_with_filter);
*/
void ir_raw_event_set_idle(struct rc_dev *dev, bool idle)
{
- if (!dev->raw)
- return;
-
dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "%s idle mode\n", idle ? "enter" : "leave");
if (idle) {
@@ -228,7 +213,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ir_raw_event_set_idle);
*/
void ir_raw_event_handle(struct rc_dev *dev)
{
- if (!dev->raw || !dev->raw->thread)
+ if (!dev->raw->thread)
return;
wake_up_process(dev->raw->thread);
@@ -613,9 +598,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ir_raw_encode_carrier);
*/
int ir_raw_event_prepare(struct rc_dev *dev)
{
- if (!dev)
- return -EINVAL;
-
dev->raw = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev->raw), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dev->raw)
return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
index 923cc1acda942..e3b538ec547b7 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c
@@ -1699,14 +1699,24 @@ static const struct device_type rc_dev_type = {
struct rc_dev *rc_allocate_device(enum rc_driver_type type)
{
struct rc_dev *dev;
+ int ret;
dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dev)
return NULL;
+ if (type == RC_DRIVER_IR_RAW) {
+ ret = ir_raw_event_prepare(dev);
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ kfree(dev);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ }
+
if (type != RC_DRIVER_IR_RAW_TX) {
dev->input_dev = input_allocate_device();
if (!dev->input_dev) {
+ ir_raw_event_free(dev);
kfree(dev);
return NULL;
}
@@ -1722,6 +1732,7 @@ struct rc_dev *rc_allocate_device(enum rc_driver_type type)
spin_lock_init(&dev->rc_map.lock);
spin_lock_init(&dev->keylock);
}
+
mutex_init(&dev->lock);
dev->dev.type = &rc_dev_type;
@@ -1916,12 +1927,6 @@ int rc_register_device(struct rc_dev *dev)
dev->sysfs_groups[attr++] = &rc_dev_wakeup_filter_attr_grp;
dev->sysfs_groups[attr++] = NULL;
- if (dev->driver_type == RC_DRIVER_IR_RAW) {
- rc = ir_raw_event_prepare(dev);
- if (rc < 0)
- goto out_minor;
- }
-
if (dev->driver_type != RC_DRIVER_IR_RAW_TX) {
rc = rc_prepare_rx_device(dev);
if (rc)
@@ -1978,8 +1983,6 @@ int rc_register_device(struct rc_dev *dev)
out_rx_free:
ir_free_table(&dev->rc_map);
out_raw:
- ir_raw_event_free(dev);
-out_minor:
ida_free(&rc_ida, minor);
return rc;
}
--
2.53.0
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2026-11-04 14:31 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] media: rc: Fix race condition during rc_register_device()" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree gregkh
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