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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>2016-04-27 19:28:26 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2016-06-15 17:57:24 -0300
commita087ce704b802becbb4b0f2a20f2cb3f6911802e (patch)
tree6cfa3f4ac4ef03bc7f7cc5fe4180a956f470213b /drivers/media/media-devnode.c
parent163f1e93e995048b894c5fc86a6034d16beed740 (diff)
downloadlinux-a087ce704b802becbb4b0f2a20f2cb3f6911802e.tar.gz
[media] media-device: dynamically allocate struct media_devnode
struct media_devnode is currently embedded at struct media_device.

While this works fine during normal usage, it leads to a race
condition during devnode unregister. the problem is that drivers
assume that, after calling media_device_unregister(), the struct
that contains media_device can be freed. This is not true, as it
can't be freed until userspace closes all opened /dev/media devnodes.

In other words, if the media devnode is still open, and media_device
gets freed, any call to an ioctl will make the core to try to access
struct media_device, with will cause an use-after-free and even GPF.

Fix this by dynamically allocating the struct media_devnode and only
freeing it when it is safe.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/media/media-devnode.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/media-devnode.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/media-devnode.c b/drivers/media/media-devnode.c
index 7481c9610945..ecdc02d6ed83 100644
--- a/drivers/media/media-devnode.c
+++ b/drivers/media/media-devnode.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 
 #include <media/media-devnode.h>
+#include <media/media-device.h>
 
 #define MEDIA_NUM_DEVICES	256
 #define MEDIA_NAME		"media"
@@ -74,6 +75,8 @@ static void media_devnode_release(struct device *cd)
 	/* Release media_devnode and perform other cleanups as needed. */
 	if (devnode->release)
 		devnode->release(devnode);
+
+	kfree(devnode);
 }
 
 static struct bus_type media_bus_type = {
@@ -219,7 +222,8 @@ static const struct file_operations media_devnode_fops = {
 	.llseek = no_llseek,
 };
 
-int __must_check media_devnode_register(struct media_devnode *devnode,
+int __must_check media_devnode_register(struct media_device *mdev,
+					struct media_devnode *devnode,
 					struct module *owner)
 {
 	int minor;
@@ -238,6 +242,7 @@ int __must_check media_devnode_register(struct media_devnode *devnode,
 	mutex_unlock(&media_devnode_lock);
 
 	devnode->minor = minor;
+	devnode->media_dev = mdev;
 
 	/* Part 2: Initialize and register the character device */
 	cdev_init(&devnode->cdev, &media_devnode_fops);