[PATCH 6.18 348/641] power: supply: cpcap-battery: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-25T06:56:41Z

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 642f33e34b969eedec334738fd5df95d2dc42742 ]

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: 874b2adbed12 ("power: supply: cpcap-battery: Add a battery driver")
Signed-off-by: Waqar Hameed <waqar.hameed@axis.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/81db58d610c9a51a68184f856cd431a934cccee2.1766268280.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/cpcap-battery.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/cpcap-battery.c b/drivers/power/supply/cpcap-battery.c
index 8106d1edcbc26..507fdc1c866d5 100644
--- a/drivers/power/supply/cpcap-battery.c
+++ b/drivers/power/supply/cpcap-battery.c
@@ -1122,10 +1122,6 @@ static int cpcap_battery_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ddata);

- error = cpcap_battery_init_interrupts(pdev, ddata);
- if (error)
- return error;
-
error = cpcap_battery_init_iio(ddata);
if (error)
return error;
@@ -1142,6 +1138,10 @@ static int cpcap_battery_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return error;
}

+ error = cpcap_battery_init_interrupts(pdev, ddata);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+
atomic_set(&ddata->active, 1);

error = cpcap_battery_calibrate(ddata);
--
2.51.0