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 5.4-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-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8c00d5837b8354b5a7e9d1a40a07ada253728758
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:
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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 c5e6eff5a381..36479b72d278 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ 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;
