GHSA-5fv9-jv39-xhgwunknown

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: video-i2c: fix...

Published
September 16, 2026
Last Modified
September 16, 2026

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📋 Description

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

media: video-i2c: fix kthread error pointer left in kthread_vid_cap on failure

kthread_run() returns an ERR_PTR on failure, not NULL. When start_streaming() fails, data->kthread_vid_cap is left holding this error pointer instead of being cleared.

This causes two subsequent bugs:

  1. A future call to start_streaming() sees a non-NULL kthread_vid_cap and returns 0 (success) immediately, without actually starting the capture thread.
  2. A call to stop_streaming() checks 'kthread_vid_cap == NULL' which is false for an error pointer, and proceeds to call kthread_stop() on the error pointer, leading to a kernel crash.

Fix this by resetting kthread_vid_cap to NULL on failure before jumping to the error path.

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