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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linmao Li <lilinmao@kylinos.cn>,
	Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>,
	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y] media: chips-media: wave5: Handle polling IRQ thread failure
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 08:27:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110132647.1725405-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261107051848-failed-6.12-1d563e3d718a@kernel.org>

From: Linmao Li <lilinmao@kylinos.cn>

[ Upstream commit 1d563e3d718a1c7c16355843374fbdd4c798ac66 ]

When falling back to polling mode, wave5_vpu_probe() does not check the
return value of kthread_run().  On failure, dev->irq_thread holds an
error pointer instead of a valid task pointer.

Both the probe error path and the remove path only check
dev->irq_thread against NULL before calling kthread_stop() on it, so an
error pointer passes the check and kthread_stop() crashes on it.

Check the kthread_run() result, clear dev->irq_thread and unwind the
probe on failure.

Fixes: e66ff2b08e4e ("media: chips-media: wave5: Fix Null reference while testing fluster")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linmao Li <lilinmao@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
[ sashal: Adjusted context to preserve hrtimer_init() with separate callback assignment and kthread_create_worker(). ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-vpu.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-vpu.c b/drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-vpu.c
index 5ec14a7c70c7c..d38be4761d4e9 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-vpu.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-vpu.c
@@ -300,6 +300,13 @@ static int wave5_vpu_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to get irq resource, falling back to polling\n");
 		sema_init(&dev->irq_sem, 1);
 		dev->irq_thread = kthread_run(irq_thread, dev, "irq thread");
+		if (IS_ERR(dev->irq_thread)) {
+			ret = PTR_ERR(dev->irq_thread);
+			dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to create irq thread\n");
+			dev->irq_thread = NULL;
+			goto err_vdi_release;
+		}
+
 		hrtimer_init(&dev->hrtimer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, HRTIMER_MODE_REL_PINNED);
 		dev->hrtimer.function = &wave5_vpu_timer_callback;
 		dev->worker = kthread_create_worker(0, "vpu_irq_thread");
-- 
2.53.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-11-10 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-07 10:18 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] media: chips-media: wave5: Handle polling IRQ thread failure" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree Sasha Levin
2026-11-10 13:27 ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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