This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled spi: lpspi: Avoid potential use-after-free in probe() to the 6.6-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: spi-lpspi-avoid-potential-use-after-free-in-probe.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 45493496a0c5d610d6b68470dce44938fb461cfd Author: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Mar 12 12:20:48 2024 +0100 spi: lpspi: Avoid potential use-after-free in probe() [ Upstream commit 2ae0ab0143fcc06190713ed81a6486ed0ad3c861 ] fsl_lpspi_probe() is allocating/disposing memory manually with spi_alloc_host()/spi_alloc_target(), but uses devm_spi_register_controller(). In case of error after the latter call the memory will be explicitly freed in the probe function by spi_controller_put() call, but used afterwards by "devm" management outside probe() (spi_unregister_controller() <- devm_spi_unregister() below). Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000070 ... Call trace: kernfs_find_ns kernfs_find_and_get_ns sysfs_remove_group sysfs_remove_groups device_remove_attrs device_del spi_unregister_controller devm_spi_unregister release_nodes devres_release_all really_probe driver_probe_device __device_attach_driver bus_for_each_drv __device_attach device_initial_probe bus_probe_device deferred_probe_work_func process_one_work worker_thread kthread ret_from_fork Fixes: 5314987de5e5 ("spi: imx: add lpspi bus driver") Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://msgid.link/r/20240312112050.2503643-1-alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c index 11991eb126364..079035db7dd85 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c @@ -830,11 +830,11 @@ static int fsl_lpspi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) is_target = of_property_read_bool((&pdev->dev)->of_node, "spi-slave"); if (is_target) - controller = spi_alloc_target(&pdev->dev, - sizeof(struct fsl_lpspi_data)); + controller = devm_spi_alloc_target(&pdev->dev, + sizeof(struct fsl_lpspi_data)); else - controller = spi_alloc_host(&pdev->dev, - sizeof(struct fsl_lpspi_data)); + controller = devm_spi_alloc_host(&pdev->dev, + sizeof(struct fsl_lpspi_data)); if (!controller) return -ENOMEM;