[PATCH v2 6/7] thermal: max77620: fix device-node reference imbalance

Johan Hovold
2017-06-06T16:02:32Z

The thermal child device reuses the parent MFD-device device-tree node
when registering a thermal zone, but did not take a reference to the
node.

This leads to a reference imbalance, and potential use-after-free, when
the node reference is dropped by the platform-bus device destructor
(once for the child and later again for the parent).

Fix this by dropping any reference already held to a device-tree node
and getting a reference to the parent's node which will be balanced on
reprobe or on platform-device release, whichever comes first.

Note that simply clearing the of_node pointer on probe errors and on
driver unbind would not allow the use of device-managed resources as
specifically thermal_zone_of_sensor_unregister() claims that a valid
device-tree node pointer is needed during deregistration (even if it
currently does not seem to use it).

Fixes: ec4664b3fd6d ("thermal: max77620: Add thermal driver for reporting junction temp")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9
Cc: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
drivers/thermal/max77620_thermal.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/max77620_thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/max77620_thermal.c
index e9a1fe342760..71d35f3c9215 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/max77620_thermal.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/max77620_thermal.c
@@ -104,8 +104,6 @@ static int max77620_thermal_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return -EINVAL;
}

- pdev->dev.of_node = pdev->dev.parent->of_node;
-
mtherm->dev = &pdev->dev;
mtherm->rmap = dev_get_regmap(pdev->dev.parent, NULL);
if (!mtherm->rmap) {
@@ -113,6 +111,14 @@ static int max77620_thermal_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return -ENODEV;
}

+ /*
+ * Drop any current reference to a device-tree node and get a
+ * reference to the parent's node which will be balanced on reprobe or
+ * on platform-device release.
+ */
+ of_node_put(pdev->dev.of_node);
+ pdev->dev.of_node = of_node_get(pdev->dev.parent->of_node);
+
mtherm->tz_device = devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_register(&pdev->dev, 0,
mtherm, &max77620_thermal_ops);
if (IS_ERR(mtherm->tz_device)) {
--
2.13.0