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

[Ricardo Ribalda]

Hi Jie



On Mon, 24 Nov 2025 at 04:08, Jie Deng <dengjie03@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Ricardo
>
> Thank you for your reply
>
> 在 2025/11/22 16:17, Ricardo Ribalda 写道:
> > 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?
> The kernel version I'm using is 5.4.18
> >
> > 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
>
> This patch may indeed eliminate the problem I described.
>
> The 5.4 longterm version should not have synchronized this patch？

Seems that the patch that fixed the issue:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c?id=c9ec6f1736363b2b2bb4e266997389740f628441

Was only backported until 5.10

5.4 is EOL this December. So it is probably not worth doing anything more.

Regards!

>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jie Deng
>


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Ricardo Ribalda