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Wysocki" , Geert Uytterhoeven , Johan Hovold , Claudiu Beznea , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Peter Griffin , Dmitry Baryshkov , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Zijun Hu , linux-phy@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] phy: core: fix potential UAF in of_phy_simple_xlate() Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 03:57:11PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > The implementation put_device()s located device and then uses > container_of() on the pointer. The device may disappear by that time, > resulting in UAF. > > Fix the problem by keeping the reference to the framer device, > avoiding getting an extra reference to it in framer_get(), and making > sure to drop the reference in error path when we fail to get the module. Hmm, I was too rash. There are bunch of other xlate functions that need to be updated to take the reference. > > Fixes: e6625db66212 ("phy: core: Simplify API of_phy_simple_xlate() implementation") > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov > --- > drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 7 +++---- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c > index 4ad396214d0c..cf62eb9ddca9 100644 > --- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c > +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c > @@ -682,10 +682,10 @@ struct phy *of_phy_get(struct device_node *np, const char *con_id) > if (IS_ERR(phy)) > return phy; > > - if (!try_module_get(phy->ops->owner)) > + if (!try_module_get(phy->ops->owner)) { > + put_device(&phy->dev); > return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER); > - > - get_device(&phy->dev); > + } > > return phy; > } > @@ -765,7 +765,6 @@ struct phy *of_phy_simple_xlate(struct device *dev, > if (!target_dev) > return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); > > - put_device(target_dev); > return to_phy(target_dev); > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_phy_simple_xlate); > -- > 2.53.0.345.g96ddfc5eaa-goog > > -- Dmitry