[PATCH 5.15 098/164] power: supply: bq256xx: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed()

Sasha Levin
2026-02-28T18:16:28Z

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

[ Upstream commit 8005843369723d9c8975b7c4202d1b85d6125302 ]

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: 32e4978bb920 ("power: supply: bq256xx: Introduce the BQ256XX charger driver")
Signed-off-by: Waqar Hameed <waqar.hameed@axis.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/39da6da8cc060fa0382ca859f65071e791cb6119.1766268280.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/bq256xx_charger.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/bq256xx_charger.c b/drivers/power/supply/bq256xx_charger.c
index 9fb7b44e890af..86f8ce4035209 100644
--- a/drivers/power/supply/bq256xx_charger.c
+++ b/drivers/power/supply/bq256xx_charger.c
@@ -1675,6 +1675,12 @@ static int bq256xx_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
usb_register_notifier(bq->usb3_phy, &bq->usb_nb);
}

+ ret = bq256xx_power_supply_init(bq, &psy_cfg, dev);
+ if (ret) {
+ dev_err(dev, "Failed to register power supply\n");
+ return ret;
+ }
+
if (client->irq) {
ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, client->irq, NULL,
bq256xx_irq_handler_thread,
@@ -1687,12 +1693,6 @@ static int bq256xx_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
}
}

- ret = bq256xx_power_supply_init(bq, &psy_cfg, dev);
- if (ret) {
- dev_err(dev, "Failed to register power supply\n");
- return ret;
- }
-
ret = bq256xx_hw_init(bq);
if (ret) {
dev_err(dev, "Cannot initialize the chip.\n");
--
2.51.0