Re: [PATCH -next] spi: cadence-quadspi: Remove spi_master_put() in probe failure path

From: Pratyush Yadav
Date: Thu Jul 14 2022 - 07:08:04 EST


Hi Mark,

On 07/06/22 11:46AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 12:46:11 +0530, Vaishnav Achath wrote:
> > Currently the spi_master is allocated by devm_spi_alloc_master()
> > and devres core manages the deallocation, but in probe failure
> > path spi_master_put() is being handled manually which causes
> > "refcount underflow use-after-free" warning when probe failure happens
> > after allocating spi_master.
> >
> > Trimmed backtrace during failure:
> >
> > [...]
>
> Applied to
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi.git for-next

I see this error in v5.19-rc6 as well. Can we get this patch merged as a
fix in rc7? Sorry for spotting this so late in the cycle, but I thought
you had already got this merged in one of the rcs.

>
> Thanks!
>
> [1/1] spi: cadence-quadspi: Remove spi_master_put() in probe failure path
> commit: 8523c96894e916b20ba3612e48e404fad5acfdd9
>
> All being well this means that it will be integrated into the linux-next
> tree (usually sometime in the next 24 hours) and sent to Linus during
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>
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> Thanks,
> Mark

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
Texas Instruments Inc.