5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Hans Verkuil hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl
commit 1ed4477f2ea4743e7c5e1f9f3722152d14e6eeb1 upstream.
After the new V4L2 device node was registered, some additional initialization was done before the device node was marked as 'registered'. During the time between creating the device node and marking it as 'registered' it was possible to open the device node, which would return -ENODEV since the 'registered' flag was not yet set.
Hold the videodev_lock mutex from just before the device node is registered until the 'registered' flag is set. Since v4l2_open will take the same lock, it will wait until this registration process is finished. This resolves this race condition.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # for vi4.18 and up Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c @@ -1011,8 +1011,10 @@ int __video_register_device(struct video vdev->dev.devt = MKDEV(VIDEO_MAJOR, vdev->minor); vdev->dev.parent = vdev->dev_parent; dev_set_name(&vdev->dev, "%s%d", name_base, vdev->num); + mutex_lock(&videodev_lock); ret = device_register(&vdev->dev); if (ret < 0) { + mutex_unlock(&videodev_lock); pr_err("%s: device_register failed\n", __func__); goto cleanup; } @@ -1032,6 +1034,7 @@ int __video_register_device(struct video
/* Part 6: Activate this minor. The char device can now be used. */ set_bit(V4L2_FL_REGISTERED, &vdev->flags); + mutex_unlock(&videodev_lock);
return 0;