[PATCH] media: meson: vdec: fix use-after-free of decode work in stop/close path
Doruk Tan Ozturk
doruk at 0sec.ai
Mon Jun 15 07:05:29 PDT 2026
vdec_close() calls v4l2_m2m_ctx_release() and then kfree(sess) without
ever cancelling sess->esparser_queue_work. The worker
esparser_queue_all_src() takes sess->lock and walks the source buffers
of sess->m2m_ctx, so if it is still pending or running when the session
is torn down it dereferences freed memory.
The work is (re-)armed from several places, including amvdec_buf_done(),
which runs from the decode-completion/IRQ path. That makes the obvious
fixes insufficient:
- v4l2_m2m_ctx_release() frees m2m_ctx (and runs stop_streaming via
vb2_queue_release()), but never cancels the work. Cancelling in
vdec_close() after v4l2_m2m_ctx_release() would wait on a worker that
may already be dereferencing the now-freed m2m_ctx.
- Cancelling in vdec_close() before v4l2_m2m_ctx_release() keeps
m2m_ctx valid, but the hardware is still live, so amvdec_buf_done()
can re-arm the work right after the cancel, reintroducing the UAF.
Cancel the work in vdec_stop_streaming() instead, right after
vdec_poweroff() has quiesced the hardware (so its IRQ can no longer
re-arm the work) and while sess->m2m_ctx is still valid. Because
v4l2_m2m_ctx_release() always tears the queues down through
vb2_queue_release() -> __vb2_queue_cancel() -> stop_streaming, this
single cancel covers both the STREAMOFF and the close paths.
This does not deadlock: the queue lock (sess->lock, shared by both vb2
queues) is taken by the worker, but neither the STREAMOFF path
(video_ioctl2 serialises on vdev->lock == core->lock, and
v4l2_m2m_streamoff() calls the lockless vb2_streamoff()) nor the close
path (vb2_queue_release()) holds sess->lock when stop_streaming runs, so
cancel_work_sync() can safely wait for the worker.
Fixes: 3e7f51bd9607 ("media: meson: add v4l2 m2m video decoder driver")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Doruk Tan Ozturk <doruk at 0sec.ai>
---
drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c
index 4b77ec1af5a7..42822064cf8d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/meson/vdec/vdec.c
@@ -419,6 +419,16 @@ static void vdec_stop_streaming(struct vb2_queue *q)
sess->status = STATUS_STOPPED;
}
+ /*
+ * The esparser_queue_work worker dereferences sess->m2m_ctx and
+ * sess->lock. The hardware (and its IRQ, which re-arms the work via
+ * amvdec_buf_done()) has been quiesced by vdec_poweroff() above, so
+ * no new work can be scheduled past this point. m2m_ctx is still
+ * valid here. Wait for any in-flight worker to finish before the
+ * buffers and (on the close path) m2m_ctx are torn down.
+ */
+ cancel_work_sync(&sess->esparser_queue_work);
+
if (q->type == V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_OUTPUT_MPLANE) {
while ((buf = v4l2_m2m_src_buf_remove(sess->m2m_ctx)))
v4l2_m2m_buf_done(buf, VB2_BUF_STATE_ERROR);
--
2.43.0
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