[PATCH] media: uvcvideo: Fix race condition with usb_kill_urb

From: Ricardo Ribalda
Date: Mon Dec 12 2022 - 15:15:54 EST


usb_kill_urb warranties that all the handlers are finished when it
returns, but does not protect against threads that might be handling
asynchronously the urb.

For UVC, the function uvc_ctrl_status_event_async() takes care of
control changes. If the code is executed in the following order:

CPU 0 CPU 1
===== =====
uvc_status_complete()
uvc_status_stop()
uvc_ctrl_status_event_work()
uvc_status_start() -> FAIL

Then uvc_status_start will keep failing and this error will be shown:

<4>[ 5.540139] URB 0000000000000000 submitted while active
drivers/usb/core/urb.c:378 usb_submit_urb+0x4c3/0x528

Let's improve the current situation, by not re-submiting the urb if
there are no users on the system.

Also add a flag that is clear during stop, that will capture this
situation:

CPU 0 CPU 1
===== =====
uvc_status_complete()
uvc_status_stop()
uvc_status_start()
uvc_ctrl_status_event_work() -> FAIL

Hopefully, with the usb layer protection it should be enough to cover
all the cases.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: e5225c820c05 ("media: uvcvideo: Send a control event when a Control Change interrupt arrives")
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_ctrl.c | 9 +++++++++
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_status.c | 1 +
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h | 2 ++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_ctrl.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_ctrl.c
index c95a2229f4fa..0634a4baa2e9 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_ctrl.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_ctrl.c
@@ -1442,12 +1442,20 @@ static void uvc_ctrl_status_event_work(struct work_struct *work)

uvc_ctrl_status_event(w->chain, w->ctrl, w->data);

+ mutex_lock(&dev->lock);
+ if (!dev->users || !dev->resubmit_urb) {
+ mutex_unlock(&dev->lock);
+ return;
+ }
+
/* Resubmit the URB. */
w->urb->interval = dev->int_ep->desc.bInterval;
ret = usb_submit_urb(w->urb, GFP_KERNEL);
if (ret < 0)
dev_err(&dev->udev->dev,
"Failed to resubmit status URB (%d).\n", ret);
+ dev->resubmit_urb = false;
+ mutex_unlock(&dev->lock);
}

bool uvc_ctrl_status_event_async(struct urb *urb, struct uvc_video_chain *chain,
@@ -1466,6 +1474,7 @@ bool uvc_ctrl_status_event_async(struct urb *urb, struct uvc_video_chain *chain,
w->chain = chain;
w->ctrl = ctrl;

+ dev->resubmit_urb = true;
schedule_work(&w->work);

return true;
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_status.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_status.c
index 7518ffce22ed..3cc6e1dfaf01 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_status.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_status.c
@@ -310,4 +310,5 @@ int uvc_status_start(struct uvc_device *dev, gfp_t flags)
void uvc_status_stop(struct uvc_device *dev)
{
usb_kill_urb(dev->int_urb);
+ dev->resubmit_urb = false;
}
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
index df93db259312..9e6a52008ce5 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
@@ -539,6 +539,8 @@ struct uvc_device {

struct mutex lock; /* Protects users */
unsigned int users;
+ bool resubmit_urb;
+
atomic_t nmappings;

/* Video control interface */

---
base-commit: 0ec5a38bf8499f403f81cb81a0e3a60887d1993c
change-id: 20221212-uvc-race-09276ea68bf8

Best regards,
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Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>