Re: [PATCH v2] media: usb: uvc: Fix NULL pointer dereference during USB device hot-unplug

[Ricardo Ribalda]

Hi Jie

On Sat, 22 Nov 2025 at 08:26, Jie Deng <dengjie03@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Add safety checks to prevent kernel panic during the race window in
> USB device disconnection.

Can you share the kernel version that you are using?

This patch
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c93d73c9c2cfa7658f7100d201a47c4856746222
Should prevent the race that you are describing.


In your trace you have a reference to uvc_queue_streamoff that was
deleted by that patch

Regards!
>
> The issue occurs in a specific timing window during hot-unplug:
> - usb_disconnect() calls usb_disable_device() which sets
>   dev->actconfig->interface[i] to NULL
> - But dev->actconfig is not yet set to NULL
> - During this window, uvc_video_stop_streaming() calls usb_set_interface()
> - This eventually calls usb_ifnum_to_if() which accesses the already
>   NULL interface[i]->altsetting, causing a kernel panic
> logs:
> [ 9518.891254] Call trace:
> [ 9518.894817]  usb_ifnum_to_if+0x34/0x50
> [ 9518.899681]  usb_set_interface+0x108/0x3c8
> [ 9518.904898]  uvc_video_stop_streaming+0x3c/0x90 [uvcvideo]
> [ 9518.911500]  uvc_stop_streaming+0x24/0x90 [uvcvideo]
> [ 9518.917583]  __vb2_queue_cancel+0x44/0x458 [videobuf2_common]
> [ 9518.924444]  vb2_core_streamoff+0x20/0xb8 [videobuf2_common]
> [ 9518.931221]  vb2_streamoff+0x18/0x60 [videobuf2_v4l2]
> [ 9518.937390]  uvc_queue_streamoff+0x30/0x50 [uvcvideo]
^^^^^^^^


> [ 9518.943557]  uvc_ioctl_streamoff+0x40/0x68 [uvcvideo]
> [ 9518.949724]  v4l_streamoff+0x20/0x28
> [ 9518.954415]  __video_do_ioctl+0x17c/0x3e0
> [ 9518.959540]  video_usercopy+0x1d8/0x558
> [ 9518.964490]  video_ioctl2+0x14/0x1c
> [ 9518.969094]  v4l2_ioctl+0x3c/0x58
> [ 9518.973526]  do_vfs_ioctl+0x374/0x7b0
> [ 9518.978304]  ksys_ioctl+0x78/0xa8
> [ 9518.982734]  sys_ioctl+0xc/0x18
> [ 9518.986991]  __sys_trace_return+0x0/0x4
> [ 9518.991943] Code: eb04005f 54000100 f9400040 91002042 (f9400003)
> [ 9518.999153] ---[ end trace f7c7d3236806d9a4 ]---