With the CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON enabled the unhandled fault error appears when unbinding the driver. The spi controller driver memory is freed inside the spi_imx_remove prior to executing PM callbacks thus leading to use-after-free. Fix it by switching to the devm version of spi_register_controller. Alignment trap: not handling instruction e1932f9f at [<80632434>] 8<--- cut here --- Unhandled fault: alignment exception (0x001) at 0x6b6b6c53 [6b6b6c53] *pgd=00000000 Internal error: : 1 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM Modules linked in: cdc_mbim cdc_wdm cdc_ncm cdc_ether usbnet cdc_acm usb_serial_simple usbserial usb_f_rndis u_ether wl18xx wlcore mac80211 libarc4 cfg80211 wlcore_sdio phy_generic ci_hdrc_imx ci_hdrc ulpi usbmisc_imx roles pwm_imx27 pwm_beeper evbug libcomposite udc_core configfs nfnetlink CPU: 2 PID: 1241 Comm: rebind.sh Not tainted 6.10.0-dnm3pv2-dnm3pv2-ga03695deba11 #1 Hardware name: Freescale i.MX6 Quad/DualLite (Device Tree) PC is at __pm_runtime_resume+0x58/0x6c LR is at spi_imx_remove+0x1c/0xa8 pc : [<80632438>] lr : [<806ebefc>] psr: 20010013 sp : f1d81e88 ip : 83c0e204 fp : 00000000 r10: 00000000 r9 : 00000000 r8 : 82dd9454 r7 : 82dda054 r6 : 810f82f0 r5 : 00000004 r4 : 6b6b6b6b r3 : 6b6b6c53 r2 : 85321240 r1 : 00000004 r0 : 6b6b6b6b Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none Control: 10c5387d Table: 1687c04a DAC: 00000051 Register r0 information: non-paged memory Register r1 information: non-paged memory Register r2 information: slab task_struct start 85321200 data offset 64 pointer offset 0 size 2176 allocated at copy_process+0x1d8/0x1b2c kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x10c/0x334 copy_process+0x1d8/0x1b2c kernel_clone+0xa4/0x340 sys_clone+0x70/0x94 ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54 Free path: rcu_core+0x2b4/0x7e0 handle_softirqs+0xf4/0x25c irq_exit+0x68/0x8c call_with_stack+0x18/0x20 __irq_svc+0x98/0xc8 cpuidle_enter_state+0x168/0x37c cpuidle_enter+0x40/0x50 do_idle+0x108/0x200 cpu_startup_entry+0x28/0x2c secondary_start_kernel+0x12c/0x14c 0x10101340 Register r3 information: non-paged memory Register r4 information: non-paged memory Register r5 information: non-paged memory Register r6 information: non-slab/vmalloc memory Register r7 information: slab kmalloc-512 start 82dd9e00 data offset 512 pointer offset 84 size 512 allocated at platform_device_alloc+0x20/0xb8 __kmalloc_noprof+0x148/0x380 platform_device_alloc+0x20/0xb8 of_device_alloc+0x34/0x178 of_platform_device_create_pdata+0x60/0x11c of_platform_bus_create+0x1cc/0x35c of_platform_bus_create+0x230/0x35c of_platform_bus_create+0x230/0x35c of_platform_bus_create+0x230/0x35c of_platform_populate+0x80/0x110 imx6q_init_machine+0x98/0x21c customize_machine+0x20/0x30 do_one_initcall+0x58/0x240 kernel_init_freeable+0x198/0x1f4 kernel_init+0x1c/0x12c ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28 Register r8 information: slab kmalloc-512 start 82dd9200 data offset 512 pointer offset 84 size 512 allocated at platform_device_alloc+0x20/0xb8 __kmalloc_noprof+0x148/0x380 platform_device_alloc+0x20/0xb8 of_device_alloc+0x34/0x178 of_platform_device_create_pdata+0x60/0x11c of_platform_bus_create+0x1cc/0x35c of_platform_bus_create+0x230/0x35c of_platform_bus_create+0x230/0x35c of_platform_populate+0x80/0x110 imx6q_init_machine+0x98/0x21c customize_machine+0x20/0x30 do_one_initcall+0x58/0x240 kernel_init_freeable+0x198/0x1f4 kernel_init+0x1c/0x12c ret_from_fork+0x14/0x28 Register r9 information: NULL pointer Register r10 information: NULL pointer Register r11 information: NULL pointer Register r12 information: slab kmalloc-64 start 83c0e180 data offset 64 pointer offset 68 size 64 allocated at kobject_set_name_vargs+0x2c/0xa0 kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x14c/0x37c kvasprintf+0x5c/0xcc kobject_set_name_vargs+0x2c/0xa0 dev_set_name+0x2c/0x58 spi_register_controller+0xcc/0xc48 spi_imx_probe+0x41c/0x694 platform_probe+0x5c/0xb0 really_probe+0xe0/0x3cc __driver_probe_device+0x9c/0x1e0 driver_probe_device+0x30/0xc0 __driver_attach+0x11c/0x1cc bus_for_each_dev+0x7c/0xcc bus_add_driver+0xe0/0x220 driver_register+0x7c/0x114 do_one_initcall+0x58/0x240 kernel_init_freeable+0x198/0x1f4 Free path: kobject_put+0xd0/0x29c spi_imx_remove+0x10/0xa8 platform_remove+0x20/0x5c device_release_driver_internal+0x184/0x1f0 unbind_store+0x54/0x90 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0xfc/0x1e8 vfs_write+0x25c/0x450 ksys_write+0x70/0xf0 ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54 Process rebind.sh (pid: 1241, stack limit = 0xf1d80000) Stack: (0xf1d81e88 to 0xf1d82000) 1e80: 83c54f40 82dd9410 810f82f0 806ebefc 82dda010 8062698c 1ea0: 82dda010 80625014 810f3b60 82dda010 0000000c 810f82f0 f1d81f28 806228c4 1ec0: 85cad640 0000000c 85e56080 85e56090 f1d81f28 802dafe0 00000000 00000000 1ee0: 85108e00 802daee4 f1d81f80 0086ae30 85321240 80b14188 00000000 80257d8c 1f00: 8687c020 00000000 00000000 00000000 00010000 0000000c 0086ae30 00000000 1f20: 00000001 00000000 85108e00 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 1f40: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 f1d81f50 16506a32 0000000c 85108e00 1f60: 85108e00 00000000 00000000 801002c4 85321240 00000004 00000000 802580e4 1f80: 00000000 00000000 0086b000 16506a32 0000002d 0000000c 0086ae30 76ef6ba8 1fa0: 00000004 80100060 0000000c 0086ae30 00000001 0086ae30 0000000c 00000001 1fc0: 0000000c 0086ae30 76ef6ba8 00000004 00000000 005a6dd0 00000000 00000000 1fe0: 00000004 7eef2468 76e982fb 76e155a6 40010030 00000001 00000000 00000000 Call trace: __pm_runtime_resume from spi_imx_remove+0x1c/0xa8 spi_imx_remove from platform_remove+0x20/0x5c platform_remove from device_release_driver_internal+0x184/0x1f0 device_release_driver_internal from unbind_store+0x54/0x90 unbind_store from kernfs_fop_write_iter+0xfc/0x1e8 kernfs_fop_write_iter from vfs_write+0x25c/0x450 vfs_write from ksys_write+0x70/0xf0 ksys_write from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54 Exception stack(0xf1d81fa8 to 0xf1d81ff0) 1fa0: 0000000c 0086ae30 00000001 0086ae30 0000000c 00000001 1fc0: 0000000c 0086ae30 76ef6ba8 00000004 00000000 005a6dd0 00000000 00000000 1fe0: 00000004 7eef2468 76e982fb 76e155a6 Code: e8bd8070 e28030e8 f593f000 e1932f9f (e2822001) ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Fixes: 307c897db762 ("spi: spi-imx: replace struct spi_imx_data::bitbang by pointer to struct spi_controller") Signed-off-by: Kirill Yatsenko <kirill.yatsenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-imx.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c b/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c index 4a56a5b16e12..14834c4e839a 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-imx.c @@ -1854,7 +1854,7 @@ static int spi_imx_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) spi_imx->devtype_data->intctrl(spi_imx, 0); controller->dev.of_node = pdev->dev.of_node; - ret = spi_register_controller(controller); + ret = devm_spi_register_controller(&pdev->dev, controller); if (ret) { dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, ret, "register controller failed\n"); goto out_register_controller; @@ -1900,8 +1900,6 @@ static void spi_imx_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) struct spi_imx_data *spi_imx = spi_controller_get_devdata(controller); int ret; - spi_unregister_controller(controller); - ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(spi_imx->dev); if (ret >= 0) writel(0, spi_imx->base + MXC_CSPICTRL); -- 2.34.1