From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 774C046D57B for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:59:09 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1784660352; cv=none; b=Ou3+xrr0bnhR6PZDAj5oLzFKTfzN7dk3Ex3Ro6Eiv4Q7SQ/OkMfyau3587Vu70dPKO0jDh/KAo47n/V0c3nSYTTFe+rVGtLGl0IYmECyWHBBZ2RwbfAbGfVubUE7oAv7ypW6NUZ1JsYIyvuMmKbbRwgLw2JsKFDuPoZmhuWYOcU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1784660352; c=relaxed/simple; bh=JszYArdeFnjUp3ZcESs0pNNpjD7t8WrWkuzc+nb+SuE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=fvg05k4/t72qSvkTaEnfq7bmd4WeAR/tyTjTp/Qepzv1V4Wak/Jou5DK5C/aCeCv0vNXtK+pSFyyKM/8Avzyr5BSl7ZT1lA1kDm0EekeRvqlxsEW1E/zPeg1LBIhQdgSi/GqyPqbT26igSL7ShgHEVXhJgPPZz4ZJ7oqc9z2/LY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=oams7NkU; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="oams7NkU" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 984721F00AC4; Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:59:07 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1784660348; bh=kXdNycSzON+3bVM0o5NbgfvXxm4plcGFiDEdfo57LOg=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References; b=oams7NkU87+7TF0VISn8RWFHkIt+LoV+4zjnYdncvGAzN6U8QRA1wJ/WzC//HkWOS iI1T9gqPbQl0a0uuUiZjhOVgYwDcQh1yW7tIqqHsSkGYY4d0zoJ6OdzbwCU3yPau2g /aTViVIorr5YKwWUspM+0GQ+DojthSVTfSQVhmHWNPbr1Osv8dnt9b3nTC5eO286OD 6gXyH1ZE7iD/fGuGoeVbWk3AaCmKhNEZxiHErwrQPLMapsPIiWKobc1XJxNWDYr0iC ZXkt/2O1xXCAEQJtnuQOh6hwOCzE+gjlMaqdugmtJDN+K3B8YbpKB4p/7nErvPjJ6d btO5kbdfE5j7g== From: Sasha Levin To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Johan Hovold , Joe Hattori , Wolfram Sang , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y 3/4] i2c: core: fix NULL-deref on adapter registration failure Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:59:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20260721185903.397573-3-sashal@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 In-Reply-To: <20260721185903.397573-1-sashal@kernel.org> References: <2026071637-frenzied-roundworm-4d38@gregkh> <20260721185903.397573-1-sashal@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Johan Hovold [ 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 Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang Stable-dep-of: 07d5fb537928 ("i2c: core: fix adapter debugfs creation") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- 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