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Commit a574359e authored by Chen Zhongjin's avatar Chen Zhongjin Committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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media: dvb-core: Fix ignored return value in dvb_register_frontend()

In dvb_register_frontend(), dvb_register_device() is possible to fail
but its return value is ignored.

It will cause use-after-free when module is removed, because in
dvb_unregister_frontend() it tries to unregister a not registered
device.

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in dvb_remove_device+0x18b/0x1f0 [dvb_core]
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800dff4824 by task rmmod/428
CPU: 3 PID: 428 Comm: rmmod
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ...
 dvb_remove_device+0x18b/0x1f0 [dvb_core]
 dvb_unregister_frontend+0x7b/0x130 [dvb_core]
 vidtv_bridge_remove+0x6e/0x160 [dvb_vidtv_bridge]
 ...

Fix this by catching return value of dvb_register_device().
However the fe->refcount can't be put to zero immediately, because
there are still modules calling dvb_frontend_detach() when
dvb_register_frontend() fails.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20221108033005.169095-1-chenzhongjin@huawei.com


Fixes: 1da177e4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: default avatarChen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
parent 0f298a43
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