[PATCH 6.18 350/641] power: supply: pm8916_bms_vm: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-25T06:56:42Z

6.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Waqar Hameed <waqar.hameed@axis.com>

[ Upstream commit 62914959b35e9a1e29cc0f64cb8cfc5075a5366f ]

Using the `devm_` variant for requesting IRQ _before_ the `devm_`
variant for allocating/registering the `power_supply` handle, means that
the `power_supply` handle will be deallocated/unregistered _before_ the
interrupt handler (since `devm_` naturally deallocates in reverse
allocation order). This means that during removal, there is a race
condition where an interrupt can fire just _after_ the `power_supply`
handle has been freed, *but* just _before_ the corresponding
unregistration of the IRQ handler has run.

This will lead to the IRQ handler calling `power_supply_changed()` with
a freed `power_supply` handle. Which usually crashes the system or
otherwise silently corrupts the memory...

Note that there is a similar situation which can also happen during
`probe()`; the possibility of an interrupt firing _before_ registering
the `power_supply` handle. This would then lead to the nasty situation
of using the `power_supply` handle *uninitialized* in
`power_supply_changed()`.

Fix this racy use-after-free by making sure the IRQ is requested _after_
the registration of the `power_supply` handle.

Fixes: 098bce1838e0 ("power: supply: Add pm8916 VM-BMS support")
Signed-off-by: Waqar Hameed <waqar.hameed@axis.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikita Travkin <nikita@trvn.ru>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2749c09ff81fcac87ae48147e216135450d8c067.1766268280.git.waqar.hameed@axis.com
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/power/supply/pm8916_bms_vm.c | 18 +++++++++---------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/pm8916_bms_vm.c b/drivers/power/supply/pm8916_bms_vm.c
index 5120be086e6ff..de5d571c03e21 100644
--- a/drivers/power/supply/pm8916_bms_vm.c
+++ b/drivers/power/supply/pm8916_bms_vm.c
@@ -167,15 +167,6 @@ static int pm8916_bms_vm_battery_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (ret < 0)
return -EINVAL;

- irq = platform_get_irq_byname(pdev, "fifo");
- if (irq < 0)
- return irq;
-
- ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, irq, NULL, pm8916_bms_vm_fifo_update_done_irq,
- IRQF_ONESHOT, "pm8916_vm_bms", bat);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
ret = regmap_bulk_read(bat->regmap, bat->reg + PM8916_PERPH_TYPE, &tmp, 2);
if (ret)
goto comm_error;
@@ -220,6 +211,15 @@ static int pm8916_bms_vm_battery_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (ret)
return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "Unable to get battery info\n");

+ irq = platform_get_irq_byname(pdev, "fifo");
+ if (irq < 0)
+ return irq;
+
+ ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, irq, NULL, pm8916_bms_vm_fifo_update_done_irq,
+ IRQF_ONESHOT, "pm8916_vm_bms", bat);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
platform_set_drvdata(pdev, bat);

return 0;
--
2.51.0