[PATCH] media: microchip-csi2dc: fix async notifier leak on probe error path
From: Cong Nguyen
Date: Sat Aug 08 2026 - 05:07:48 EST
csi2dc_of_parse() ends up calling csi2dc_prepare_notifier(), which
registers the V4L2 async notifier with v4l2_async_nf_register(). The
probe error label csi2dc_probe_cleanup_notifier is reached after
csi2dc_of_parse() has already succeeded (e.g. when media entity init,
csi2dc_power() or v4l2_async_register_subdev() fail), but it calls only
v4l2_async_nf_cleanup() and never v4l2_async_nf_unregister().
The notifier therefore stays chained in the global notifier_list while
the enclosing struct csi2dc_device is freed, leading to list corruption
and a use-after-free when the list is next walked.
Unregister the notifier before cleaning it up on the error path,
matching the teardown already done in csi2dc_remove().
Fixes: 2de0b3c0f678 ("media: atmel: introduce microchip csi2dc driver")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4
Signed-off-by: Cong Nguyen <congnt264@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/platform/microchip/microchip-csi2dc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/microchip/microchip-csi2dc.c b/drivers/media/platform/microchip/microchip-csi2dc.c
index 70303a0b6919..59574258ab2b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/microchip/microchip-csi2dc.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/microchip/microchip-csi2dc.c
@@ -736,6 +736,7 @@ static int csi2dc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return 0;
csi2dc_probe_cleanup_notifier:
+ v4l2_async_nf_unregister(&csi2dc->notifier);
v4l2_async_nf_cleanup(&csi2dc->notifier);
csi2dc_probe_cleanup_entity:
media_entity_cleanup(&csi2dc->csi2dc_sd.entity);
--
2.25.1