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i2c: core: Fix double-free of fwnode in i2c_unregister_device()
authorHans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:01:04 +0000 (20:01 +0200)
committerWolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:41:36 +0000 (10:41 +0200)
Before commit df6d7277e552 ("i2c: core: Do not dereference fwnode in struct
device"), i2c_unregister_device() only called fwnode_handle_put() on
of_node-s in the form of calling of_node_put(client->dev.of_node).

But after this commit the i2c_client's fwnode now unconditionally gets
fwnode_handle_put() on it.

When the i2c_client has no primary (ACPI / OF) fwnode but it does have
a software fwnode, the software-node will be the primary node and
fwnode_handle_put() will put() it.

But for the software fwnode device_remove_software_node() will also put()
it leading to a double free:

[   82.665598] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   82.665609] refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
[   82.665808] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1502 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x11
...
[   82.666830] RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0xba/0x110
...
[   82.666962]  <TASK>
[   82.666971]  i2c_unregister_device+0x60/0x90

Fix this by not calling fwnode_handle_put() when the primary fwnode is
a software-node.

Fixes: df6d7277e552 ("i2c: core: Do not dereference fwnode in struct device")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c

index 2ad2b1838f0f41c83362743c72a3c491f630f294..0849aa44952da04b242a7c89a45b4c91c6bf9b97 100644 (file)
@@ -1066,7 +1066,13 @@ void i2c_unregister_device(struct i2c_client *client)
                of_node_clear_flag(to_of_node(fwnode), OF_POPULATED);
        else if (is_acpi_device_node(fwnode))
                acpi_device_clear_enumerated(to_acpi_device_node(fwnode));
-       fwnode_handle_put(fwnode);
+
+       /*
+        * If the primary fwnode is a software node it is free-ed by
+        * device_remove_software_node() below, avoid double-free.
+        */
+       if (!is_software_node(fwnode))
+               fwnode_handle_put(fwnode);
 
        device_remove_software_node(&client->dev);
        device_unregister(&client->dev);