From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, wsa@kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] i2c: dev: check return value when calling dev_set_name()" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 11:46:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <165027521721348@kroah.com> (raw)
The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 993eb48fa199b5f476df8204e652eff63dd19361 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 21:07:51 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] i2c: dev: check return value when calling dev_set_name()
If dev_set_name() fails, the dev_name() is null, check the return
value of dev_set_name() to avoid the null-ptr-deref.
Fixes: 1413ef638aba ("i2c: dev: Fix the race between the release of i2c_dev and cdev")
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
index cf5d049342ea..6fd2b6718b08 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c
@@ -668,16 +668,21 @@ static int i2cdev_attach_adapter(struct device *dev, void *dummy)
i2c_dev->dev.class = i2c_dev_class;
i2c_dev->dev.parent = &adap->dev;
i2c_dev->dev.release = i2cdev_dev_release;
- dev_set_name(&i2c_dev->dev, "i2c-%d", adap->nr);
+
+ res = dev_set_name(&i2c_dev->dev, "i2c-%d", adap->nr);
+ if (res)
+ goto err_put_i2c_dev;
res = cdev_device_add(&i2c_dev->cdev, &i2c_dev->dev);
- if (res) {
- put_i2c_dev(i2c_dev, false);
- return res;
- }
+ if (res)
+ goto err_put_i2c_dev;
pr_debug("adapter [%s] registered as minor %d\n", adap->name, adap->nr);
return 0;
+
+err_put_i2c_dev:
+ put_i2c_dev(i2c_dev, false);
+ return res;
}
static int i2cdev_detach_adapter(struct device *dev, void *dummy)
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