This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled chardev: fix error handling in cdev_device_add() 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: chardev-fix-error-handling-in-cdev_device_add.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. commit 034d0b410718cff9c151e07557b5a062791ce7f8 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Dec 2 11:02:37 2022 +0800 chardev: fix error handling in cdev_device_add() [ Upstream commit 11fa7fefe3d8fac7da56bc9aa3dd5fb3081ca797 ] While doing fault injection test, I got the following report: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kobject: '(null)' (0000000039956980): is not initialized, yet kobject_put() is being called. WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 6306 at kobject_put+0x23d/0x4e0 CPU: 3 PID: 6306 Comm: 283 Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc2-00005-g307c1086d7c9 #1253 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:kobject_put+0x23d/0x4e0 Call Trace: <TASK> cdev_device_add+0x15e/0x1b0 __iio_device_register+0x13b4/0x1af0 [industrialio] __devm_iio_device_register+0x22/0x90 [industrialio] max517_probe+0x3d8/0x6b4 [max517] i2c_device_probe+0xa81/0xc00 When device_add() is injected fault and returns error, if dev->devt is not set, cdev_add() is not called, cdev_del() is not needed. Fix this by checking dev->devt in error path. Fixes: 233ed09d7fda ("chardev: add helper function to register char devs with a struct device") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221202030237.520280-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c index ba0ded7842a7..3f667292608c 100644 --- a/fs/char_dev.c +++ b/fs/char_dev.c @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ int cdev_device_add(struct cdev *cdev, struct device *dev) } rc = device_add(dev); - if (rc) + if (rc && dev->devt) cdev_del(cdev); return rc;