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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
	Joe Hattori <joe@pf.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y 3/5] i2c: core: fix NULL-deref on adapter registration failure
Date: Sun,  5 Jul 2026 09:47:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260705134759.1722831-3-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260705134759.1722831-1-sashal@kernel.org>

From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 2295d2bb101faa663fbc45fadbb3fec45f107441 ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Stable-dep-of: ba14d7cf2fe7 ("i2c: core: fix adapter registration race")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
index 8d688d631ccbfe..70876470348ab4 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -1557,7 +1557,7 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
 	res = device_register(&adap->dev);
 	if (res) {
 		pr_err("adapter '%s': can't register device (%d)\n", adap->name, res);
-		goto err_remove_irq_domain;
+		goto err_put_adap;
 	}
 
 	adap->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&adap->dev), i2c_debugfs_root);
@@ -1603,10 +1603,12 @@ 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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-05 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-02 13:53 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] i2c: core: fix adapter registration race" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree gregkh
2026-07-05 13:47 ` [PATCH 6.1.y 1/5] i2c: core: fix irq domain leak on adapter registration failure Sasha Levin
2026-07-05 13:47   ` [PATCH 6.1.y 2/5] i2c: core: fix hang " Sasha Levin
2026-07-05 13:47   ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-07-05 13:47   ` [PATCH 6.1.y 4/5] i2c: core: fix adapter debugfs creation Sasha Levin
2026-07-05 13:47   ` [PATCH 6.1.y 5/5] i2c: core: fix adapter registration race Sasha Levin

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