[PATCH 1/2] media: chips-media: wave5: Release m2m_ctx after Instance Removed from List

From: Brandon Brnich

Date: Thu Apr 02 2026 - 14:51:42 EST


Possible use after free if IRQ thread manages to obtain spinlock between
m2m_ctx release and wave5_release function removing stream instance from
list of active instances. The IRQ thread looks for the m2m_ctx which is
freed so null pointer dereference occurs.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Brnich <b-brnich@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-helper.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-helper.c b/drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-helper.c
index 53a0ac068c2e..c3d34be833ff 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-helper.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/chips-media/wave5/wave5-helper.c
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ int wave5_vpu_release_device(struct file *filp,
int ret = 0;
unsigned long flags;

- v4l2_m2m_ctx_release(inst->v4l2_fh.m2m_ctx);
/*
* To prevent Null reference exception, the existing irq handler were
* separated to two modules.
@@ -89,6 +88,9 @@ int wave5_vpu_release_device(struct file *filp,
list_del_init(&inst->list);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&inst->dev->irq_spinlock, flags);
mutex_unlock(&inst->dev->irq_lock);
+
+ v4l2_m2m_ctx_release(inst->v4l2_fh.m2m_ctx);
+
if (inst->state != VPU_INST_STATE_NONE) {
u32 fail_res;

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2.43.0