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authorJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>2026-05-11 16:37:08 +0200
committerWolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>2026-05-30 23:57:18 +0200
commit2295d2bb101faa663fbc45fadbb3fec45f107441 (patch)
tree6b8fbf8beab7c7fb804846874f1faa4e718b0028
parent3c7e164344e5bcf6f274bbf59a3274f5caad9bc1 (diff)
i2c: core: fix NULL-deref on adapter registration failure
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>
-rw-r--r--drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
index e42851a10098..fa9db415e219 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c
@@ -1574,8 +1574,7 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
res = device_add(&adap->dev);
if (res) {
pr_err("adapter '%s': can't register device (%d)\n", adap->name, res);
- put_device(&adap->dev);
- goto err_remove_irq_domain;
+ goto err_put_adap;
}
adap->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&adap->dev), i2c_debugfs_root);
@@ -1608,10 +1607,12 @@ 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);