[PATCH v3] media: bttv: fix use after free error due to btv->timeout timer

From: Zheng Wang
Date: Wed Apr 12 2023 - 23:50:22 EST


There may be some a race condition between timer function
bttv_irq_timeout and bttv_remove. The timer is setup in
probe and there is no timer_delete operation in remove
function. When it hit kfree btv, the function might still be
invoked, which will cause use after free bug.

This bug is found by static analysis, it may be false positive.

Fix it by adding del_timer_sync invoking to the remove function.

cpu0 cpu1
bttv_probe
->timer_setup
->bttv_set_dma
->mod_timer;
bttv_remove
->kfree(btv);
->bttv_irq_timeout
->USE btv

Fixes: 162e6376ac58 ("media: pci: Convert timers to use timer_setup()")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Wang <zyytlz.wz@xxxxxxx>
---
v3:
- Add Fix label
v2:
- stop replacing del_timer with del_timer_sync suggested by Hillf Danton
---
drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c
index d40b537f4e98..24ba5729969d 100644
--- a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c
@@ -4248,6 +4248,7 @@ static void bttv_remove(struct pci_dev *pci_dev)

/* free resources */
free_irq(btv->c.pci->irq,btv);
+ del_timer_sync(&btv->timeout);
iounmap(btv->bt848_mmio);
release_mem_region(pci_resource_start(btv->c.pci,0),
pci_resource_len(btv->c.pci,0));
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