On Mon May 11 20:12:09 2026 +0300, Valery Borovsky wrote:
> The vb2 framework hands buffers to the driver via buf_queue() before
> calling start_streaming().  If start_streaming() returns an error
> without first returning those buffers via vb2_buffer_done(),
> vb2_start_streaming() fires WARN_ON(owned_by_drv_count) and the queued
> buffers leak.
> 
> rtl2832_sdr_start_streaming() had multiple error paths that hit this
> trap: two direct early returns (-ENODEV, -ERESTARTSYS), plus six
> `goto err` paths covering subdev s_power, tuner setup, ADC setup,
> stream-buffer allocation, urb allocation, and urb submission failures.
> None of them returned the queued buffers.
> 
> The original function had no distinct success exit and fell straight
> through into the err label, which previously only did mutex_unlock and
> "return ret".  Adding queued-buffer cleanup at err must therefore be
> paired with an explicit success return; otherwise every successful
> start would also drain the buffer queue and kill streaming.  Add that
> success return, then add rtl2832_sdr_cleanup_queued_bufs() at the err
> label and before each early return.
> 
> The cleanup helper takes a vb2_buffer_state argument so that the
> start_streaming error paths can pass VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED (as
> expected by userspace on start_streaming failure) while stop_streaming
> keeps its existing VB2_BUF_STATE_ERROR semantics.
> 
> This mirrors the uvcvideo fix in commit 4cf3b6fd54eb ("media: uvcvideo:
> Return queued buffers on start_streaming() failure").
> 
> The err label still does not roll back power_ctrl(), frontend_ctrl(),
> the POWER_ON flag, or stream/URB allocations that may have happened
> before the failing step.  Those are pre-existing leaks of a different
> class and are not addressed here.
> 
> Fixes: 771138920eaf ("[media] rtl2832_sdr: Realtek RTL2832 SDR driver module")
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Valery Borovsky <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <[email protected]>

Patch committed.

Thanks,
Hans Verkuil

 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2832_sdr.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

---

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2832_sdr.c 
b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2832_sdr.c
index 422d1a7b5456..c564485e3bbb 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2832_sdr.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/rtl2832_sdr.c
@@ -399,7 +399,8 @@ static int rtl2832_sdr_alloc_urbs(struct rtl2832_sdr_dev 
*dev)
 }
 
 /* Must be called with vb_queue_lock hold */
-static void rtl2832_sdr_cleanup_queued_bufs(struct rtl2832_sdr_dev *dev)
+static void rtl2832_sdr_cleanup_queued_bufs(struct rtl2832_sdr_dev *dev,
+                                           enum vb2_buffer_state state)
 {
        struct platform_device *pdev = dev->pdev;
        unsigned long flags;
@@ -413,7 +414,7 @@ static void rtl2832_sdr_cleanup_queued_bufs(struct 
rtl2832_sdr_dev *dev)
                buf = list_entry(dev->queued_bufs.next,
                                struct rtl2832_sdr_frame_buf, list);
                list_del(&buf->list);
-               vb2_buffer_done(&buf->vb.vb2_buf, VB2_BUF_STATE_ERROR);
+               vb2_buffer_done(&buf->vb.vb2_buf, state);
        }
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->queued_bufs_lock, flags);
 }
@@ -855,11 +856,15 @@ static int rtl2832_sdr_start_streaming(struct vb2_queue 
*vq, unsigned int count)
 
        dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "\n");
 
-       if (!dev->udev)
+       if (!dev->udev) {
+               rtl2832_sdr_cleanup_queued_bufs(dev, VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED);
                return -ENODEV;
+       }
 
-       if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&dev->v4l2_lock))
+       if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&dev->v4l2_lock)) {
+               rtl2832_sdr_cleanup_queued_bufs(dev, VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED);
                return -ERESTARTSYS;
+       }
 
        if (d->props->power_ctrl)
                d->props->power_ctrl(d, 1);
@@ -900,7 +905,11 @@ static int rtl2832_sdr_start_streaming(struct vb2_queue 
*vq, unsigned int count)
        if (ret)
                goto err;
 
+       mutex_unlock(&dev->v4l2_lock);
+       return 0;
+
 err:
+       rtl2832_sdr_cleanup_queued_bufs(dev, VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED);
        mutex_unlock(&dev->v4l2_lock);
 
        return ret;
@@ -920,7 +929,7 @@ static void rtl2832_sdr_stop_streaming(struct vb2_queue *vq)
        rtl2832_sdr_kill_urbs(dev);
        rtl2832_sdr_free_urbs(dev);
        rtl2832_sdr_free_stream_bufs(dev);
-       rtl2832_sdr_cleanup_queued_bufs(dev);
+       rtl2832_sdr_cleanup_queued_bufs(dev, VB2_BUF_STATE_ERROR);
        rtl2832_sdr_unset_adc(dev);
 
        /* sleep tuner */
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