[PATCH net 1/2] can: ucan: fix devres lifetime

Marc Kleine-Budde
2026-04-09T17:00:00Z

From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>

USB drivers bind to USB interfaces and any device managed resources
should have their lifetime tied to the interface rather than parent USB
device. This avoids issues like memory leaks when drivers are unbound
without their devices being physically disconnected (e.g. on probe
deferral or configuration changes).

Fix the control message buffer lifetime so that it is released on driver
unbind.

Fixes: 9f2d3eae88d2 ("can: ucan: add driver for Theobroma Systems UCAN devices")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19
Cc: Jakob Unterwurzacher <jakob.unterwurzacher@theobroma-systems.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327104520.1310158-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
---
drivers/net/can/usb/ucan.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/ucan.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/ucan.c
index 0ea0ac75e42f..ee3c1abbd063 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/usb/ucan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/ucan.c
@@ -1397,7 +1397,7 @@ static int ucan_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
*/

/* Prepare Memory for control transfers */
- ctl_msg_buffer = devm_kzalloc(&udev->dev,
+ ctl_msg_buffer = devm_kzalloc(&intf->dev,
sizeof(union ucan_ctl_payload),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ctl_msg_buffer) {

base-commit: ebe560ea5f54134279356703e73b7f867c89db13
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2.53.0