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comedi: pcl818: fix null-ptr-deref in pcl818_ai_cancel()

Syzbot identified an issue [1] in pcl818_ai_cancel(), which stems from
the fact that in case of early device detach via pcl818_detach(),
subdevice dev->read_subdev may not have initialized its pointer to
&struct comedi_async as intended. Thus, any such dereferencing of
&s->async->cmd will lead to general protection fault and kernel crash.

Mitigate this problem by removing a call to pcl818_ai_cancel() from
pcl818_detach() altogether. This way, if the subdevice setups its
support for async commands, everything async-related will be
handled via subdevice's own ->cancel() function in
comedi_device_detach_locked() even before pcl818_detach(). If no
support for asynchronous commands is provided, there is no need
to cancel anything either.

[1] Syzbot crash:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000005: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000028-0x000000000000002f]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6050 Comm: syz.0.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
RIP: 0010:pcl818_ai_cancel+0x69/0x3f0 drivers/comedi/drivers/pcl818.c:762
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
pcl818_detach+0x66/0xd0 drivers/comedi/drivers/pcl818.c:1115
comedi_device_detach_locked+0x178/0x750 drivers/comedi/drivers.c:207
do_devconfig_ioctl drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:848 [inline]
comedi_unlocked_ioctl+0xcde/0x1020 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:2178
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
...

Reported-by: syzbot+fce5d9d5bd067d6fbe9b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=fce5d9d5bd067d6fbe9b
Fixes: 00aba6e7b565 ("staging: comedi: pcl818: remove 'neverending_ai' from private data")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nikita Zhandarovich <n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru>
Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251023141457.398685-1-n.zhandarovich@fintech.ru
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Nikita Zhandarovich and committed by
Greg Kroah-Hartman
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drivers/comedi/drivers/pcl818.c
··· 1111 1111 { 1112 1112 struct pcl818_private *devpriv = dev->private; 1113 1113 1114 - if (devpriv) { 1115 - pcl818_ai_cancel(dev, dev->read_subdev); 1114 + if (devpriv) 1116 1115 pcl818_reset(dev); 1117 - } 1116 + 1118 1117 pcl818_free_dma(dev); 1119 1118 comedi_legacy_detach(dev); 1120 1119 }