5.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Fan Wu commit 4e143d662ca94888b494b2427fc9e34494eb933a upstream. netup_ci_exit() frees a netup_ci_state while its work item, netup_read_ci_status(), may still be pending or running on the system workqueue. The worker obtains the state with container_of() and dereferences it, so it must not outlive the state. netup_ci_init() queues the initial status read, and CI GPIO interrupts subsequently queue the same work from netup_ci_slot_status(). During remove, cx23885_finidev() calls free_irq() before the CI device is unregistered. free_irq() prevents further IRQ handlers from running, but does not drain work queued previously, so the worker can run after netup_ci_exit() frees the state. Call cancel_work_sync() before dvb_ca_en50221_release() and kfree(). This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool. Fixes: c184dcd28233 ("V4L/DVB (10798): Add CIMax(R) SP2 Common Interface code for NetUP Dual DVB-S2 CI card") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6 Signed-off-by: Fan Wu Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cimax2.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cimax2.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cimax2.c @@ -528,6 +528,7 @@ void netup_ci_exit(struct cx23885_tsport if (NULL == state->ca.data) return; + cancel_work_sync(&state->work); dvb_ca_en50221_release(&state->ca); kfree(state); }