From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stepan Ionichev <sozdayvek@gmail.com>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y] serial: 8250_dw: unregister 8250 port if clk_notifier_register() fails
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:49:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260625134939.2415321-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026062537-limeade-detection-f50d@gregkh>
From: Stepan Ionichev <sozdayvek@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit 10fc708b4de7f86002d2d735a2dbf3b5b7f65692 ]
dw8250_probe() registers the 8250 port via serial8250_register_8250_port()
and then, if the device has a clock, registers a clock notifier. 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 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 is a
use-after-free hazard.
Unregister the port on the clk_notifier_register() error path.
Fixes: cc816969d7b5 ("serial: 8250_dw: Fix common clocks usage race condition")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stepan Ionichev <sozdayvek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260514143746.23671-2-sozdayvek@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
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 f17dc3de020c19..7b2e72bfeb7522 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_dw.c
@@ -655,8 +655,10 @@ 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_unbound_wq, &data->clk_work);
}
--
2.53.0
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2026-06-25 12:46 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] serial: 8250_dw: unregister 8250 port if" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree gregkh
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