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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Cc: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@kernel.org>,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Joe Hattori <joe@pf.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Subject: [PATCH v3 03/10] i2c: core: fix NULL-deref on adapter registration failure
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 16:37:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260511143715.729714-4-johan@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260511143715.729714-1-johan@kernel.org>

If adapter registration ever fails the release callback would trigger a
NULL-pointer dereference as the completion struct has not been
initialised.

Note that before the offending commit this would instead have resulted
in a minor memory leak of the adapter name.

Fixes: 3f8c4f5e9a57 ("i2c: core: fix reference leak in i2c_register_adapter()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joe Hattori <joe@pf.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
index e42851a10098..fa9db415e219 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -1574,8 +1574,7 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
 	res = device_add(&adap->dev);
 	if (res) {
 		pr_err("adapter '%s': can't register device (%d)\n", adap->name, res);
-		put_device(&adap->dev);
-		goto err_remove_irq_domain;
+		goto err_put_adap;
 	}
 
 	adap->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&adap->dev), i2c_debugfs_root);
@@ -1608,10 +1607,12 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
 out_reg:
 	i2c_deregister_clients(adap);
 	debugfs_remove_recursive(adap->debugfs);
+	device_del(&adap->dev);
+err_put_adap:
 	init_completion(&adap->dev_released);
-	device_unregister(&adap->dev);
+	put_device(&adap->dev);
 	wait_for_completion(&adap->dev_released);
-err_remove_irq_domain:
+
 	i2c_host_notify_irq_teardown(adap);
 out_list:
 	mutex_lock(&core_lock);
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-11 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-11 14:37 [PATCH v3 00/10] i2c: core: adapter registration fixes Johan Hovold
2026-05-11 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] i2c: core: fix irq domain leak on adapter registration failure Johan Hovold
2026-05-11 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] i2c: core: fix hang " Johan Hovold
2026-05-11 14:37 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2026-05-11 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] i2c: core: fix adapter probe deferral loop Johan Hovold
2026-05-11 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] i2c: core: fix adapter debugfs creation Johan Hovold
2026-05-11 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] i2c: core: disable runtime PM on adapter registration failure Johan Hovold
2026-05-11 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] i2c: core: fix adapter registration race Johan Hovold
2026-05-11 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] i2c: core: fix adapter deregistration race Johan Hovold
2026-05-11 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] i2c: core: clean up bus id allocation Johan Hovold
2026-05-11 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] i2c: core: clean up adapter registration error label Johan Hovold
2026-05-11 16:35 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] i2c: core: adapter registration fixes Wolfram Sang
2026-05-11 17:49   ` Johan Hovold

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