[PATCH 6.19 455/781] power: supply: pm8916_lbc: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-25T01:35:22Z

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

[ Upstream commit b7508129978ae1e2ed9b0410396abc05def9c4eb ]

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: f8d7a3d21160 ("power: supply: Add driver for pm8916 lbc")
Signed-off-by: Waqar Hameed <waqar.hameed@axis.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikita Travkin <nikita@trvn.ru>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/64d8dd3675a4e59fa32c3e0ef451f12d1f7ed18f.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_lbc.c | 18 +++++++++---------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/pm8916_lbc.c b/drivers/power/supply/pm8916_lbc.c
index c74b75b1b2676..3ca717d84aade 100644
--- a/drivers/power/supply/pm8916_lbc.c
+++ b/drivers/power/supply/pm8916_lbc.c
@@ -274,15 +274,6 @@ static int pm8916_lbc_charger_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return dev_err_probe(dev, -EINVAL,
"Wrong amount of reg values: %d (4 expected)\n", len);

- irq = platform_get_irq_byname(pdev, "usb_vbus");
- if (irq < 0)
- return irq;
-
- ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, irq, NULL, pm8916_lbc_charger_state_changed_irq,
- IRQF_ONESHOT, "pm8916_lbc", chg);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
ret = device_property_read_u32_array(dev, "reg", chg->reg, len);
if (ret)
return ret;
@@ -332,6 +323,15 @@ static int pm8916_lbc_charger_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, "usb_vbus");
+ if (irq < 0)
+ return irq;
+
+ ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, irq, NULL, pm8916_lbc_charger_state_changed_irq,
+ IRQF_ONESHOT, "pm8916_lbc", chg);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
chg->edev = devm_extcon_dev_allocate(dev, pm8916_lbc_charger_cable);
if (IS_ERR(chg->edev))
return PTR_ERR(chg->edev);
--
2.51.0