From: Stepan Ionichev <sozdayvek@gmail.com>
To: ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com
Cc: andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
jirislaby@kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sozdayvek@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] serial: 8250-dw: unregister 8250 port if clk_notifier_register() fails
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 20:05:03 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260513150503.11037-1-sozdayvek@gmail.com> (raw)
dw8250_probe() registers the 8250 port via serial8250_register_8250_port()
and then, if the device has a clock, registers a clock notifier:
data->data.line = serial8250_register_8250_port(up);
if (data->data.line < 0)
return data->data.line;
...
if (data->clk) {
err = clk_notifier_register(data->clk, &data->clk_notifier);
if (err)
return dev_err_probe(dev, err,
"Failed to set the clock notifier\n");
...
}
If clk_notifier_register() fails, probe returns the error but leaves
the 8250 port registered. The matching serial8250_unregister_port()
lives in dw8250_remove(), which is not called when probe fails, so
the port slot in the serial8250 array stays occupied until the
device is rebound or the system is rebooted. The devm-allocated
driver data is freed while the port still references it (via the
saved private_data and serial_in/serial_out callbacks), so any
access to that port slot before a rebind would be a use-after-free.
Unregister the port on the clk_notifier_register() error path.
Signed-off-by: Stepan Ionichev <sozdayvek@gmail.com>
---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
index 94beadb40..7dbd79a91 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
@@ -850,8 +850,10 @@ static int dw8250_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
*/
if (data->clk) {
err = clk_notifier_register(data->clk, &data->clk_notifier);
- if (err)
+ if (err) {
+ serial8250_unregister_port(data->data.line);
return dev_err_probe(dev, err, "Failed to set the clock notifier\n");
+ }
queue_work(system_dfl_wq, &data->clk_work);
}
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-05-13 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-13 15:05 Stepan Ionichev [this message]
2026-05-13 20:34 ` [PATCH] serial: 8250-dw: unregister 8250 port if clk_notifier_register() fails Andy Shevchenko
2026-05-13 20:35 ` Andy Shevchenko
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