[PATCH] media: v4l2-mem2mem: cancel job_work in v4l2_m2m_release
From: Tristan Madani
Date: Sat Oct 24 2026 - 16:57:30 EST
From: Tristan Madani <tristan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
v4l2_m2m_release() frees the m2m_dev struct without cancelling
m2m_dev->job_work. If a device operation schedules work via
v4l2_m2m_try_schedule() and the driver tears down the m2m context
concurrently, the work fires on freed memory.
Add cancel_work_sync() before the kfree in v4l2_m2m_release().
Fixes: 7f98639def42 ("V4L/DVB: add memory-to-memory device helper framework for videobuf")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c
index a65cbb124cfe0..311e2e08d066d 100644
--- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c
+++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c
@@ -1207,6 +1207,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_m2m_init);
void v4l2_m2m_release(struct v4l2_m2m_dev *m2m_dev)
{
+ cancel_work_sync(&m2m_dev->job_work);
kfree(m2m_dev);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(v4l2_m2m_release);
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