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 5.15.y 3/5] i2c: core: fix NULL-deref on adapter registration failure
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 10:00:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260705140053.1744489-3-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260705140053.1744489-1-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 8bf8d395807f6f..899c7310c77423 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -1555,7 +1555,7 @@ 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);
@@ -1600,10 +1600,12 @@ 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-05 14:00 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 5.15-stable tree gregkh
2026-07-05 14:00 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 1/5] i2c: core: fix irq domain leak on adapter registration failure Sasha Levin
2026-07-05 14:00 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 2/5] i2c: core: fix hang " Sasha Levin
2026-07-05 14:00 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-07-05 14:00 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 4/5] i2c: core: fix adapter debugfs creation Sasha Levin
2026-07-05 14:00 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 5/5] i2c: core: fix adapter registration race Sasha Levin
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