The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 40b7a19f321e65789612ebaca966472055dab48c # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025100339-scarring-buffoon-fbc5@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 40b7a19f321e65789612ebaca966472055dab48c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Duoming Zhou duoming@zju.edu.cn Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:56:08 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] media: tuner: xc5000: Fix use-after-free in xc5000_release
The original code uses cancel_delayed_work() in xc5000_release(), which does not guarantee that the delayed work item timer_sleep has fully completed if it was already running. This leads to use-after-free scenarios where xc5000_release() may free the xc5000_priv while timer_sleep is still active and attempts to dereference the xc5000_priv.
A typical race condition is illustrated below:
CPU 0 (release thread) | CPU 1 (delayed work callback) xc5000_release() | xc5000_do_timer_sleep() cancel_delayed_work() | hybrid_tuner_release_state(priv) | kfree(priv) | | priv = container_of() // UAF
Replace cancel_delayed_work() with cancel_delayed_work_sync() to ensure that the timer_sleep is properly canceled before the xc5000_priv memory is deallocated.
A deadlock concern was considered: xc5000_release() is called in a process context and is not holding any locks that the timer_sleep work item might also need. Therefore, the use of the _sync() variant is safe here.
This bug was initially identified through static analysis.
Fixes: f7a27ff1fb77 ("[media] xc5000: delay tuner sleep to 5 seconds") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou duoming@zju.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org [hverkuil: fix typo in Subject: tunner -> tuner]
diff --git a/drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c b/drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c index bf4ff461e082..a28481edd22e 100644 --- a/drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c +++ b/drivers/media/tuners/xc5000.c @@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@ static void xc5000_release(struct dvb_frontend *fe) mutex_lock(&xc5000_list_mutex);
if (priv) { - cancel_delayed_work(&priv->timer_sleep); + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->timer_sleep); hybrid_tuner_release_state(priv); }