From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, brcm80211@lists.linux.dev,
brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential kernel oops when probe fails
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 11:21:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260203102133.1478331-1-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CGME20260203102148eucas1p10c43be72827d74e5be41fe40a84fbd59@eucas1p1.samsung.com
When probe of the sdio brcmfmac device fails for some reasons (i.e.
missing firmware), the sdiodev->bus is set to error instead of NULL, thus
the cleanup later in brcmf_sdio_remove() tries to free resources via
invalid bus pointer. This happens because sdiodev->bus is set 2 times:
first in brcmf_sdio_probe() and second time in brcmf_sdiod_probe(). Fix
this by chaning the brcmf_sdio_probe() function to return the error code
and set sdio->bus only there.
Fixes: 0ff0843310b7 ("wifi: brcmfmac: Add optional lpo clock enable support")
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
---
Changelog:
v2:
- changed return type of brcmf_sdio_probe() function
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251231143544.4158840-1-m.szyprowski@samsung.com
---
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c | 7 +++----
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c | 7 ++++---
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.h | 2 +-
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c
index 6a3f187320fc..13952dfeb3e3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh.c
@@ -951,11 +951,10 @@ int brcmf_sdiod_probe(struct brcmf_sdio_dev *sdiodev)
goto out;
/* try to attach to the target device */
- sdiodev->bus = brcmf_sdio_probe(sdiodev);
- if (IS_ERR(sdiodev->bus)) {
- ret = PTR_ERR(sdiodev->bus);
+ ret = brcmf_sdio_probe(sdiodev);
+ if (ret)
goto out;
- }
+
brcmf_sdiod_host_fixup(sdiodev->func2->card->host);
out:
if (ret)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c
index 8cf9d7e7c3f7..4e6ed02c1591 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c
@@ -4445,7 +4445,7 @@ brcmf_sdio_prepare_fw_request(struct brcmf_sdio *bus)
return fwreq;
}
-struct brcmf_sdio *brcmf_sdio_probe(struct brcmf_sdio_dev *sdiodev)
+int brcmf_sdio_probe(struct brcmf_sdio_dev *sdiodev)
{
int ret;
struct brcmf_sdio *bus;
@@ -4551,11 +4551,12 @@ struct brcmf_sdio *brcmf_sdio_probe(struct brcmf_sdio_dev *sdiodev)
goto fail;
}
- return bus;
+ return 0;
fail:
brcmf_sdio_remove(bus);
- return ERR_PTR(ret);
+ sdiodev->bus = NULL;
+ return ret;
}
/* Detach and free everything */
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.h b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.h
index 0d18ed15b403..80180d5c6c87 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.h
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ void brcmf_sdiod_freezer_uncount(struct brcmf_sdio_dev *sdiodev);
int brcmf_sdiod_probe(struct brcmf_sdio_dev *sdiodev);
int brcmf_sdiod_remove(struct brcmf_sdio_dev *sdiodev);
-struct brcmf_sdio *brcmf_sdio_probe(struct brcmf_sdio_dev *sdiodev);
+int brcmf_sdio_probe(struct brcmf_sdio_dev *sdiodev);
void brcmf_sdio_remove(struct brcmf_sdio *bus);
void brcmf_sdio_isr(struct brcmf_sdio *bus, bool in_isr);
--
2.34.1
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2026-02-03 10:21 ` Marek Szyprowski [this message]
2026-02-03 11:45 ` [PATCH v2] wifi: brcmfmac: Fix potential kernel oops when probe fails Arend van Spriel
2026-02-03 14:05 ` Marek Szyprowski
2026-02-12 6:38 ` Arend van Spriel
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