The gpio-mockup driver creates the properties that are shared between platform and GPIO devices. Because of that, the properties may not be removed at the proper point of time without provoking a use-after-free as shown in the following backtrace: refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free. WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 103 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xd1/0x120 ... Call Trace: kobject_put+0xdc/0xf0 software_node_notify_remove+0xa8/0xc0 device_del+0x15a/0x3e0 That's why the driver has to manage the lifetime of the software nodes by itself. The problem originates from the old device_add_properties() API, but has been only revealed after the commit bd1e336aa853 ("driver core: platform: Remove platform_device_add_properties()"). Hence, it's used as a landmark for the backporting. Fixes: bd1e336aa853 ("driver core: platform: Remove platform_device_add_properties()") Reported-tested-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: updated Fixes (Kent), added Tested-by (Kent), amended grammar a bit drivers/gpio/gpio-mockup.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mockup.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mockup.c index 0a9d746a0fe0..8b147b565e92 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-mockup.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-mockup.c @@ -478,8 +478,18 @@ static void gpio_mockup_unregister_pdevs(void) { int i; - for (i = 0; i < GPIO_MOCKUP_MAX_GC; i++) - platform_device_unregister(gpio_mockup_pdevs[i]); + for (i = 0; i < GPIO_MOCKUP_MAX_GC; i++) { + struct platform_device *pdev; + struct fwnode_handle *fwnode; + + pdev = gpio_mockup_pdevs[i]; + if (!pdev) + continue; + + fwnode = dev_fwnode(&pdev->dev); + platform_device_unregister(pdev); + fwnode_remove_software_node(fwnode); + } } static __init char **gpio_mockup_make_line_names(const char *label, @@ -508,6 +518,7 @@ static int __init gpio_mockup_register_chip(int idx) struct property_entry properties[GPIO_MOCKUP_MAX_PROP]; struct platform_device_info pdevinfo; struct platform_device *pdev; + struct fwnode_handle *fwnode; char **line_names = NULL; char chip_label[32]; int prop = 0, base; @@ -536,13 +547,18 @@ static int __init gpio_mockup_register_chip(int idx) "gpio-line-names", line_names, ngpio); } + fwnode = fwnode_create_software_node(properties, NULL); + if (IS_ERR(fwnode)) + return PTR_ERR(fwnode); + pdevinfo.name = "gpio-mockup"; pdevinfo.id = idx; - pdevinfo.properties = properties; + pdevinfo.fwnode = fwnode; pdev = platform_device_register_full(&pdevinfo); kfree_strarray(line_names, ngpio); if (IS_ERR(pdev)) { + fwnode_remove_software_node(fwnode); pr_err("error registering device"); return PTR_ERR(pdev); } -- 2.33.0