This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled usb: typec: tcpci: Don't skip cleanup in .remove() on error to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: usb-typec-tcpci-don-t-skip-cleanup-in-.remove-on-error.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From bbc126ae381cf0a27822c1f822d0aeed74cc40d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Uwe=20Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 10:04:56 +0200 Subject: usb: typec: tcpci: Don't skip cleanup in .remove() on error MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit bbc126ae381cf0a27822c1f822d0aeed74cc40d9 upstream. Returning an error value in an i2c remove callback results in an error message being emitted by the i2c core, but otherwise it doesn't make a difference. The device goes away anyhow and the devm cleanups are called. In this case the remove callback even returns early without stopping the tcpm worker thread and various timers. A work scheduled on the work queue, or a firing timer after tcpci_remove() returned probably results in a use-after-free situation because the regmap and driver data were freed. So better make sure that tcpci_unregister_port() is called even if disabling the irq failed. Also emit a more specific error message instead of the i2c core's "remove failed (EIO), will be ignored" and return 0 to suppress the core's warning. This patch is (also) a preparation for making i2c remove callbacks return void. Fixes: 3ba76256fc4e ("usb: typec: tcpci: mask event interrupts when remove driver") Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220502080456.21568-1-u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpci.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpci.c +++ b/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpci.c @@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ static int tcpci_remove(struct i2c_clien /* Disable chip interrupts before unregistering port */ err = tcpci_write16(chip->tcpci, TCPC_ALERT_MASK, 0); if (err < 0) - return err; + dev_warn(&client->dev, "Failed to disable irqs (%pe)\n", ERR_PTR(err)); tcpci_unregister_port(chip->tcpci); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/usb-typec-tcpci-don-t-skip-cleanup-in-.remove-on-error.patch