Re: [PATCH] media: usbvision: Fix a use after free in v4l2_release()

[Hans Verkuil]

On 2/14/20 1:48 PM, Hillf Danton wrote:
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> On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:21:03 +0100 Hans Verkuil wrote:
>> On 2/14/20 1:14 PM, Hillf Danton wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:30:29 +0100 Hans Verkuil wrote:
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>>>> Hillf, if you want your patch to be merged, then make sure it is CC-ed to
>>>> linux-media as well.
>>>
>>> Please pick it up if it makes a sense to you and it was sent with
>>> linux-media added on the Cc list as it is known for a while that
>>> my mail agent is rejected @vger.kernel.org for what I am not clear
>>> about. It makes my day occasionally :P
>>
>> I don't I ever received the full patch, only replies to your patch.
>>
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> Please take a look at the Cc tag in the snippet from
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b1d071e2-0428-a08c-392d-3ca5d4a7e710@xxxxxxxxx/T/#m13f2c16b7cd1892f6a0b58b72ce37979cb6940b9
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>> Subject: [PATCH] media: usbvision: add the release callback for video device
>> From: Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx>
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>> To fix the UAF syzbot reported,
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>> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in v4l2_release+0x2f1/0x390 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:459
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>> a release cb which is a simple wrapper of usbvision_release() is added
>> for releasing resources as the last reference to the usbvision video
>> device goes away.
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>> Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+75287f75e2fedd69d680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Fixes: 2aa689dd8057 ("[media] usbvision: embed video_device")
>> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx>

Ah, my work email. And I always delete posts mailed to that if it is also CC-ed
to linux-media. Which didn't actually arrive there in your case. And it's no longer
in my trash folder either.

So please mail me a properly formatted patch so I can forward it to linux-media
for you.

Regards,

	Hans

>> Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx>
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>> Please mail your patch directly to me so I have a clean version.
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