Description

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

media: vimc: skip .s_stream() for stopped entities

Syzbot reported [1] a warning prompted by a check in call_s_stream()
that checks whether .s_stream() operation is warranted for unstarted
or stopped subdevs.

Add a simple fix in vimc_streamer_pipeline_terminate() ensuring that
entities skip a call to .s_stream() unless they have been previously
properly started.

[1] Syzbot report:
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5933 at drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c:460 call_s_stream+0x2df/0x350 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-subdev.c:460
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5933 Comm: syz-executor330 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2-syzkaller-00362-g2d8308bf5b67 #0
...
Call Trace:

vimc_streamer_pipeline_terminate+0x218/0x320 drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-streamer.c:62
vimc_streamer_pipeline_init drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-streamer.c:101 [inline]
vimc_streamer_s_stream+0x650/0x9a0 drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-streamer.c:203
vimc_capture_start_streaming+0xa1/0x130 drivers/media/test-drivers/vimc/vimc-capture.c:256
vb2_start_streaming+0x15f/0x5a0 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:1789
vb2_core_streamon+0x2a7/0x450 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:2348
vb2_streamon drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c:875 [inline]
vb2_ioctl_streamon+0xf4/0x170 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c:1118
__video_do_ioctl+0xaf0/0xf00 ...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-22028

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 2.91% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-20 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22028
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/845e9286ff99ee88cfdeb2b748f730003a512190
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f6064dab4dcfb7e34a395040a0c9dc22cc8765d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a58d4c4cf8ff60ab1f93399deefaf6057da91c7
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36cef585e2a31e4ddf33a004b0584a7a572246de

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