* [PATCH v3 01/10] i2c: core: fix irq domain leak on adapter registration failure
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@ 2026-05-11 14:37 ` Johan Hovold
2026-05-11 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] i2c: core: fix hang " Johan Hovold
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From: Johan Hovold @ 2026-05-11 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wolfram Sang
Cc: Andi Shyti, linux-i2c, linux-kernel, Johan Hovold, stable,
Benjamin Tissoires
Make sure to tear down the host notify irq domain on adapter
registration failure to avoid leaking it.
This issue was flagged by Sashiko when reviewing another adapter
registration fix.
Fixes: 4d5538f5882a ("i2c: use an IRQ to report Host Notify events, not alert")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.10
Cc: Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
index 9c46147e3506..abe8341c1d6e 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -1574,7 +1574,7 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
if (res) {
pr_err("adapter '%s': can't register device (%d)\n", adap->name, res);
put_device(&adap->dev);
- goto out_list;
+ goto err_remove_irq_domain;
}
adap->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&adap->dev), i2c_debugfs_root);
@@ -1609,6 +1609,8 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
init_completion(&adap->dev_released);
device_unregister(&adap->dev);
wait_for_completion(&adap->dev_released);
+err_remove_irq_domain:
+ i2c_host_notify_irq_teardown(adap);
out_list:
mutex_lock(&core_lock);
idr_remove(&i2c_adapter_idr, adap->nr);
--
2.53.0
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From: Johan Hovold @ 2026-05-11 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wolfram Sang
Cc: Andi Shyti, linux-i2c, linux-kernel, Johan Hovold, stable,
Phil Reid
Clients may be registered from bus notifier callbacks when the adapter
is registered. On a subsequent error during registration, the adapter
references taken by such clients prevent the wait for the references to
be released from ever completing.
Fix this by refactoring client deregistration and deregistering also on
late adapter registration failures.
Fixes: f8756c67b3de ("i2c: core: call of_i2c_setup_smbus_alert in i2c_register_adapter")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.15
Cc: Phil Reid <preid@electromag.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
index abe8341c1d6e..e42851a10098 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
static DEFINE_MUTEX(core_lock);
static DEFINE_IDR(i2c_adapter_idr);
+static void i2c_deregister_clients(struct i2c_adapter *adap);
static int i2c_detect(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, struct i2c_driver *driver);
static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(i2c_trace_msg_key);
@@ -1605,6 +1606,7 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
return 0;
out_reg:
+ i2c_deregister_clients(adap);
debugfs_remove_recursive(adap->debugfs);
init_completion(&adap->dev_released);
device_unregister(&adap->dev);
@@ -1746,29 +1748,10 @@ static int __process_removed_adapter(struct device_driver *d, void *data)
return 0;
}
-/**
- * i2c_del_adapter - unregister I2C adapter
- * @adap: the adapter being unregistered
- * Context: can sleep
- *
- * This unregisters an I2C adapter which was previously registered
- * by @i2c_add_adapter or @i2c_add_numbered_adapter.
- */
-void i2c_del_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
+static void i2c_deregister_clients(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
{
- struct i2c_adapter *found;
struct i2c_client *client, *next;
- /* First make sure that this adapter was ever added */
- mutex_lock(&core_lock);
- found = idr_find(&i2c_adapter_idr, adap->nr);
- mutex_unlock(&core_lock);
- if (found != adap) {
- pr_debug("attempting to delete unregistered adapter [%s]\n", adap->name);
- return;
- }
-
- i2c_acpi_remove_space_handler(adap);
/* Tell drivers about this removal */
mutex_lock(&core_lock);
bus_for_each_drv(&i2c_bus_type, NULL, adap,
@@ -1794,6 +1777,32 @@ void i2c_del_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
* them up properly, so we give them a chance to do that first. */
device_for_each_child(&adap->dev, NULL, __unregister_client);
device_for_each_child(&adap->dev, NULL, __unregister_dummy);
+}
+
+/**
+ * i2c_del_adapter - unregister I2C adapter
+ * @adap: the adapter being unregistered
+ * Context: can sleep
+ *
+ * This unregisters an I2C adapter which was previously registered
+ * by @i2c_add_adapter or @i2c_add_numbered_adapter.
+ */
+void i2c_del_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
+{
+ struct i2c_adapter *found;
+
+ /* First make sure that this adapter was ever added */
+ mutex_lock(&core_lock);
+ found = idr_find(&i2c_adapter_idr, adap->nr);
+ mutex_unlock(&core_lock);
+ if (found != adap) {
+ pr_debug("attempting to delete unregistered adapter [%s]\n", adap->name);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ i2c_acpi_remove_space_handler(adap);
+
+ i2c_deregister_clients(adap);
/* device name is gone after device_unregister */
dev_dbg(&adap->dev, "adapter [%s] unregistered\n", adap->name);
--
2.53.0
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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
2026-05-11 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] i2c: core: fix adapter probe deferral loop Johan Hovold
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From: Johan Hovold @ 2026-05-11 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wolfram Sang
Cc: Andi Shyti, linux-i2c, linux-kernel, Johan Hovold, stable,
Joe Hattori
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
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From: Johan Hovold @ 2026-05-11 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wolfram Sang
Cc: Andi Shyti, linux-i2c, linux-kernel, Johan Hovold, stable,
Codrin Ciubotariu
Drivers must not probe defer after having registered devices as that
will trigger a probe loop if the devices bind to a driver (cf. commit
fbc35b45f9f6 ("Add documentation on meaning of -EPROBE_DEFER")).
Move the recovery initialisation, where the GPIO lookup may fail, before
registering the adapter to prevent this.
Fixes: 75820314de26 ("i2c: core: add generic I2C GPIO recovery")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.9
Cc: Codrin Ciubotariu <codrin.ciubotariu@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
index fa9db415e219..1caaa3b3ee10 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -1562,6 +1562,10 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
adap->dev.type = &i2c_adapter_type;
device_initialize(&adap->dev);
+ res = i2c_init_recovery(adap);
+ if (res == -EPROBE_DEFER)
+ goto err_put_adap;
+
/*
* This adapter can be used as a parent immediately after device_add(),
* setup runtime-pm (especially ignore-children) before hand.
@@ -1583,10 +1587,6 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
if (res)
goto out_reg;
- res = i2c_init_recovery(adap);
- if (res == -EPROBE_DEFER)
- goto out_reg;
-
dev_dbg(&adap->dev, "adapter [%s] registered\n", adap->name);
/* create pre-declared device nodes */
--
2.53.0
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From: Johan Hovold @ 2026-05-11 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wolfram Sang; +Cc: Andi Shyti, linux-i2c, linux-kernel, Johan Hovold, stable
Clients can be registered from bus notifier callbacks so the debugfs
directory needs to be created before registering the adapter as clients
use that directory as their debugfs parent.
Move debugfs creation before adapter registration to avoid having
clients create their debugfs directories in the debugfs root (which is
also more likely to fail due to name collisions).
Note that failure to allocate the adapter name must now be handled
explicitly as debugfs_create_dir() cannot handle a NULL name (unlike
device_add() which returns an error).
Fixes: 73febd775bdb ("i2c: create debugfs entry per adapter")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.8
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 16 ++++++++++------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
index 1caaa3b3ee10..25d66de41287 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -1557,7 +1557,10 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
goto out_list;
}
- dev_set_name(&adap->dev, "i2c-%d", adap->nr);
+ res = dev_set_name(&adap->dev, "i2c-%d", adap->nr);
+ if (res)
+ goto err_remove_irq_domain;
+
adap->dev.bus = &i2c_bus_type;
adap->dev.type = &i2c_adapter_type;
device_initialize(&adap->dev);
@@ -1575,14 +1578,14 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
pm_suspend_ignore_children(&adap->dev, true);
pm_runtime_enable(&adap->dev);
+ adap->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&adap->dev), i2c_debugfs_root);
+
res = device_add(&adap->dev);
if (res) {
pr_err("adapter '%s': can't register device (%d)\n", adap->name, res);
- goto err_put_adap;
+ goto err_remove_debugfs;
}
- adap->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&adap->dev), i2c_debugfs_root);
-
res = i2c_setup_smbus_alert(adap);
if (res)
goto out_reg;
@@ -1606,13 +1609,14 @@ 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_remove_debugfs:
+ debugfs_remove_recursive(adap->debugfs);
err_put_adap:
init_completion(&adap->dev_released);
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
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From: Johan Hovold @ 2026-05-11 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wolfram Sang; +Cc: Andi Shyti, linux-i2c, linux-kernel, Johan Hovold, stable
Adapters can be looked up based on their id using i2c_get_adapter()
which takes a reference to the embedded struct device.
Make sure that the adapter (including its struct device) has been
initialised before adding it to the IDR to avoid accessing uninitialised
data which could, for example, lead to NULL-pointer dereferences or
use-after-free.
Note that the i2c-dev chardev, which is registered from a bus notifier,
currently uses i2c_get_adapter() so the adapter needs to be added to the
IDR before registration.
Fixes: 6e13e6418418 ("i2c: Add i2c_add_numbered_adapter()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.22
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
index fdf7d7d50f79..01a984d3ca0e 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -1580,6 +1580,10 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
adap->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&adap->dev), i2c_debugfs_root);
+ mutex_lock(&core_lock);
+ idr_replace(&i2c_adapter_idr, adap, adap->nr);
+ mutex_unlock(&core_lock);
+
res = device_add(&adap->dev);
if (res) {
pr_err("adapter '%s': can't register device (%d)\n", adap->name, res);
@@ -1638,7 +1642,7 @@ static int __i2c_add_numbered_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
int id;
mutex_lock(&core_lock);
- id = idr_alloc(&i2c_adapter_idr, adap, adap->nr, adap->nr + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ id = idr_alloc(&i2c_adapter_idr, NULL, adap->nr, adap->nr + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
mutex_unlock(&core_lock);
if (WARN(id < 0, "couldn't get idr"))
return id == -ENOSPC ? -EBUSY : id;
@@ -1672,7 +1676,7 @@ int i2c_add_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adapter)
}
mutex_lock(&core_lock);
- id = idr_alloc(&i2c_adapter_idr, adapter,
+ id = idr_alloc(&i2c_adapter_idr, NULL,
__i2c_first_dynamic_bus_num, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
mutex_unlock(&core_lock);
if (WARN(id < 0, "couldn't get idr"))
--
2.53.0
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From: Johan Hovold @ 2026-05-11 14:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wolfram Sang
Cc: Andi Shyti, linux-i2c, linux-kernel, Johan Hovold, stable,
Jean Delvare
Adapters can be looked up by their id using i2c_get_adapter() which
takes a reference to the embedded struct device.
Remove the adapter from the IDR before tearing it down during
deregistration (and on registration failure) to make sure its resources
are not accessed after having been freed (e.g. the device name).
Fixes: 35fc37f81881 ("i2c: Limit core locking to the necessary sections")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.31
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
index 01a984d3ca0e..38f425aecef8 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -1587,7 +1587,7 @@ 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);
- goto err_remove_debugfs;
+ goto err_replace_id;
}
res = i2c_setup_smbus_alert(adap);
@@ -1614,7 +1614,10 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
out_reg:
i2c_deregister_clients(adap);
device_del(&adap->dev);
-err_remove_debugfs:
+err_replace_id:
+ mutex_lock(&core_lock);
+ idr_replace(&i2c_adapter_idr, NULL, adap->nr);
+ mutex_unlock(&core_lock);
debugfs_remove_recursive(adap->debugfs);
pm_runtime_disable(&adap->dev);
err_put_adap:
@@ -1804,6 +1807,8 @@ void i2c_del_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
/* First make sure that this adapter was ever added */
mutex_lock(&core_lock);
found = idr_find(&i2c_adapter_idr, adap->nr);
+ if (found == adap)
+ idr_replace(&i2c_adapter_idr, NULL, adap->nr);
mutex_unlock(&core_lock);
if (found != adap) {
pr_debug("attempting to delete unregistered adapter [%s]\n", adap->name);
--
2.53.0
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