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Commit 20568d06 authored by Zheng Wang's avatar Zheng Wang Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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media: bttv: fix use after free error due to btv->timeout timer

[ Upstream commit bd5b50b3 ]

There may be some a race condition between timer function
bttv_irq_timeout and bttv_remove. The timer is setup in
probe and there is no timer_delete operation in remove
function. When it hit kfree btv, the function might still be
invoked, which will cause use after free bug.

This bug is found by static analysis, it may be false positive.

Fix it by adding del_timer_sync invoking to the remove function.

cpu0                cpu1
                  bttv_probe
                    ->timer_setup
                      ->bttv_set_dma
                        ->mod_timer;
bttv_remove
  ->kfree(btv);
                  ->bttv_irq_timeout
                    ->USE btv

Fixes: 162e6376

 ("media: pci: Convert timers to use timer_setup()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarZheng Wang <zyytlz.wz@163.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent 825a7a6a
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