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CVE-2021-47583

Disclosure Date: June 19, 2024
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: mxl111sf: change mutex_init() location

Syzbot reported, that mxl111sf_ctrl_msg() uses uninitialized
mutex. The problem was in wrong mutex_init() location.

Previous mutex_init(&state->msg_lock) call was in –>init() function, but
dvb_usbv2_init() has this order of calls:

dvb_usbv2_init()
  dvb_usbv2_adapter_init()
    dvb_usbv2_adapter_frontend_init()
      props->frontend_attach()

  props->init()

Since mxl111sf_* devices call mxl111sf_ctrl_msg() in –>frontend_attach()
internally we need to initialize state->msg_lock before
frontendattach(). To achieve it, –>probe() call added to all mxl111sf*
devices, which will simply initiaize mutex.

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