[PATCH] media: em28xx: hold the vb2 queue lock when releasing the queue on close
From: Christopher Snowhill
Date: Tue Sep 29 2026 - 22:03:41 EST
Commit de626073dfcb ("media: em28xx: drop 'users' field") replaced the
vb2_fop_release() call in em28xx_v4l2_close() with
_vb2_fop_release(filp, NULL) under dev->lock. vb2_fop_release() took
the vb2 queue lock, but the new call takes no lock at all.
The video and VBI queues have their own locks (vb_queue_lock and
vb_vbi_queue_lock), and v4l2_ioctl_get_lock() serializes the queue
ioctls with those rather than dev->lock. The queue can therefore be
released on close while another file handle is in the middle of
VIDIOC_REQBUFS. __vb2_queue_alloc() adds each buffer to the queue before
allocating its planes, so the release can find an MMAP buffer whose
mem_priv is still NULL and hand it to vb2_vmalloc_put():
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
RIP: 0010:vb2_vmalloc_put+0xe/0x50 [videobuf2_vmalloc]
Call Trace:
__vb2_queue_free+0x14e/0x350 [videobuf2_common]
vb2_core_queue_release+0x3b/0x80 [videobuf2_common]
_vb2_fop_release+0x44/0x70 [videobuf2_v4l2]
em28xx_v4l2_close+0x60/0x140 [em28xx_v4l]
v4l2_release+0x9d/0xf0 [videodev]
__fput+0xfd/0x280
This was hit with OBS on a MyGica iGrabber (card=105).
Pass the queue lock to _vb2_fop_release(). Taking it while holding
dev->lock matches the existing order in em28xx_v4l2_fini(), where
vb2_video_unregister_device() takes the queue lock under dev->lock.
Fixes: de626073dfcb ("media: em28xx: drop 'users' field")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Christopher Snowhill <chris@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c b/drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c
index c418add65bb5..85e7430fad57 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c
@@ -2474,6 +2474,7 @@ static int em28xx_v4l2_resume(struct em28xx *dev)
*/
static int em28xx_v4l2_close(struct file *filp)
{
+ struct video_device *vdev = video_devdata(filp);
struct em28xx *dev = video_drvdata(filp);
struct em28xx_v4l2 *v4l2 = dev->v4l2;
struct usb_device *udev = interface_to_usbdev(dev->intf);
@@ -2482,7 +2483,7 @@ static int em28xx_v4l2_close(struct file *filp)
mutex_lock(&dev->lock);
last_user = v4l2_fh_is_singular_file(filp);
- _vb2_fop_release(filp, NULL);
+ _vb2_fop_release(filp, vdev->queue->lock);
if (last_user) {
/* No sense to try to write to the device */
--
2.55.0