[PATCH] media: dvb-usb-v2: set active_fe before the demux goes live
From: Nguyen Ngoc Thang
Date: Sun Sep 27 2026 - 00:46:07 EST
dvb_usbv2_adapter_dvb_init() registers the demux devices before
dvb_usbv2_adapter_frontend_init() runs. Only the latter set
adap->active_fe to -1, so until then it holds the kzalloc'ed 0 while
adap->fe[0] is still NULL.
A process that opens the demux and starts a filter in that window, which
lasts as long as frontend_attach() takes, gets past the active_fe == -1
check in dvb_usb_start_feed() and passes the NULL adap->fe[0] to
streaming_ctrl() (or get_stream_config()). mxl111sf_ep6_streaming_ctrl()
then dereferences it:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000061
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000308-0x000000000000030f]
RIP: 0010:mxl111sf_ep6_streaming_ctrl+0x2e/0x2e0
dvb_usb_start_feed+0x57a/0xc70
dmx_ts_feed_start_filtering+0x129/0x220
dvb_dmxdev_filter_start+0x434/0x10d0
dvb_demux_do_ioctl+0x48b/0x540
Initialise active_fe to -1 before the demux is registered so early
feeds fail with -EINVAL.
Reported-by: syzbot+c35815bad054e6ad396e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c35815bad054e6ad396e
Fixes: ad6b9e517b39 ("[media] dvb_usb_v2: move from dvb-usb to dvb-usb-v2")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Nguyen Ngoc Thang <ngocthang2710.1999@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c
index bd86d250433d..557451b541e6 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c
@@ -637,7 +637,6 @@ static int dvb_usbv2_adapter_frontend_init(struct dvb_usb_adapter *adap)
dev_dbg(&d->udev->dev, "%s: adap=%d\n", __func__, adap->id);
memset(adap->fe, 0, sizeof(adap->fe));
- adap->active_fe = -1;
if (d->props->frontend_attach) {
ret = d->props->frontend_attach(adap);
@@ -795,6 +794,9 @@ static int dvb_usbv2_adapter_init(struct dvb_usb_device *d)
adap->max_feed_count = adap->props->pid_filter_count;
}
+ /* demux is live before frontends attach: no feed until then */
+ adap->active_fe = -1;
+
ret = dvb_usbv2_adapter_stream_init(adap);
if (ret)
goto err;
--
2.43.0