kernel/linux.git/drivers/base/core.c, branch v5.10.258

driver core: Don't let a device probe until it's ready

2026-06-01T15:29:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit a2225b6e834a838ae3c93709760edc0a169eb2f2 ] The moment we link a "struct device" into the list of devices for the bus, it's possible probe can happen. This is because another thread can load the driver at any time and that can cause the device to probe. This has been seen in practice with a stack crawl that looks like this [1]: really_probe() __driver_probe_device() driver_probe_device() __driver_attach() bus_for_each_dev() driver_attach() bus_add_driver() driver_register() __platform_driver_register() init_module() [some module] do_one_initcall() do_init_module() load_module() __arm64_sys_finit_module() invoke_syscall() As a result of the above, it was seen that device_links_driver_bound() could be called for the device before "dev->fwnode->dev" was assigned. This prevented __fw_devlink_pickup_dangling_consumers() from being called which meant that other devices waiting on our driver's sub-nodes were stuck deferring forever. It's believed that this problem is showing up suddenly for two reasons: 1. Android has recently (last ~1 year) implemented an optimization to the order it loads modules [2]. When devices opt-in to this faster loading, modules are loaded one-after-the-other very quickly. This is unlike how other distributions do it. The reproduction of this problem has only been seen on devices that opt-in to Android's "parallel module loading". 2. Android devices typically opt-in to fw_devlink, and the most noticeable issue is the NULL "dev->fwnode->dev" in device_links_driver_bound(). fw_devlink is somewhat new code and also not in use by all Linux devices. Even though the specific symptom where "dev->fwnode->dev" wasn't assigned could be fixed by moving that assignment higher in device_add(), other parts of device_add() (like the call to device_pm_add()) are also important to run before probe. Only moving the "dev->fwnode->dev" assignment would likely fix the current symptoms but lead to difficult-to-debug problems in the future. Fix the problem by preventing probe until device_add() has run far enough that the device is ready to probe. If somehow we end up trying to probe before we're allowed, __driver_probe_device() will return -EPROBE_DEFER which will make certain the device is noticed. In the race condition that was seen with Android's faster module loading, we will temporarily add the device to the deferred list and then take it off immediately when device_add() probes the device. Instead of adding another flag to the bitfields already in "struct device", instead add a new "flags" field and use that. This allows us to freely change the bit from different thread without worrying about corrupting nearby bits (and means threads changing other bit won't corrupt us). [1] Captured on a machine running a downstream 6.6 kernel [2] https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/main/+/main:system/core/libmodprobe/libmodprobe.cpp?q=LoadModulesParallel Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 2023c610dc54 ("Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probing") Reviewed-by: Alan Stern Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260406162231.v5.1.Id750b0fbcc94f23ed04b7aecabcead688d0d8c17@changeid Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

drivers: base: Free devm resources when unregistering a device

2026-06-01T15:29:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit 699fb50d99039a50e7494de644f96c889279aca3 ] In the current code, devres_release_all() only gets called if the device has a bus and has been probed. This leads to issues when using bus-less or driver-less devices where the device might never get freed if a managed resource holds a reference to the device. This is happening in the DRM framework for example. We should thus call devres_release_all() in the device_del() function to make sure that the device-managed actions are properly executed when the device is unregistered, even if it has neither a bus nor a driver. This is effectively the same change than commit 2f8d16a996da ("devres: release resources on device_del()") that got reverted by commit a525a3ddeaca ("driver core: free devres in device_release") over memory leaks concerns. This patch effectively combines the two commits mentioned above to release the resources both on device_del() and device_release() and get the best of both worlds. Fixes: a525a3ddeaca ("driver core: free devres in device_release") Signed-off-by: David Gow Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230720-kunit-devm-inconsistencies-test-v3-3-6aa7e074f373@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Brennan Lamoreaux Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: fix potential null-ptr-deref in device_add()

2026-02-06T15:40:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit f6837f34a34973ef6600c08195ed300e24e97317 ] I got the following null-ptr-deref report while doing fault injection test: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058 CPU: 2 PID: 278 Comm: 37-i2c-ds2482 Tainted: G B W N 6.1.0-rc3+ RIP: 0010:klist_put+0x2d/0xd0 Call Trace: klist_remove+0xf1/0x1c0 device_release_driver_internal+0x196/0x210 bus_remove_device+0x1bd/0x240 device_add+0xd3d/0x1100 w1_add_master_device+0x476/0x490 [wire] ds2482_probe+0x303/0x3e0 [ds2482] This is how it happened: w1_alloc_dev() // The dev->driver is set to w1_master_driver. memcpy(&dev->dev, device, sizeof(struct device)); device_add() bus_add_device() dpm_sysfs_add() // It fails, calls bus_remove_device. // error path bus_remove_device() // The dev->driver is not null, but driver is not bound. __device_release_driver() klist_remove(&dev->p->knode_driver) <-- It causes null-ptr-deref. // normal path bus_probe_device() // It's not called yet. device_bind_driver() If dev->driver is set, in the error path after calling bus_add_device() in device_add(), bus_remove_device() is called, then the device will be detached from driver. But device_bind_driver() is not called yet, so it causes null-ptr-deref while access the 'knode_driver'. To fix this, set dev->driver to null in the error path before calling bus_remove_device(). Fixes: 57eee3d23e88 ("Driver core: Call device_pm_add() after bus_add_device() in device_add()") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221205034904.2077765-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Alva Lan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: Introduce device_find_any_child() helper

2024-12-14T18:47:56+00:00

[ Upstream commit 82b070beae1ef55b0049768c8dc91d87565bb191 ] There are several places in the kernel where this kind of functionality is being used. Provide a generic helper for such cases. Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220610120219.18988-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Stable-dep-of: 27aabf27fd01 ("Bluetooth: fix use-after-free in device_for_each_child()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Revert "driver core: Fix uevent_show() vs driver detach race"

2024-11-08T15:22:02+00:00

commit 9a71892cbcdb9d1459c84f5a4c722b14354158a5 upstream. This reverts commit 15fffc6a5624b13b428bb1c6e9088e32a55eb82c. This commit causes a regression, so revert it for now until it can come back in a way that works for everyone. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/172790598832.1168608.4519484276671503678.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com/ Fixes: 15fffc6a5624 ("driver core: Fix uevent_show() vs driver detach race") Cc: stable Cc: Ashish Sangwan Cc: Namjae Jeon Cc: Dirk Behme Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: Fix uevent_show() vs driver detach race

2024-08-19T03:41:18+00:00

commit 15fffc6a5624b13b428bb1c6e9088e32a55eb82c upstream. uevent_show() wants to de-reference dev->driver->name. There is no clean way for a device attribute to de-reference dev->driver unless that attribute is defined via (struct device_driver).dev_groups. Instead, the anti-pattern of taking the device_lock() in the attribute handler risks deadlocks with code paths that remove device attributes while holding the lock. This deadlock is typically invisible to lockdep given the device_lock() is marked lockdep_set_novalidate_class(), but some subsystems allocate a local lockdep key for @dev->mutex to reveal reports of the form: ====================================================== WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 6.10.0-rc7+ #275 Tainted: G OE N ------------------------------------------------------ modprobe/2374 is trying to acquire lock: ffff8c2270070de0 (kn->active#6){++++}-{0:0}, at: __kernfs_remove+0xde/0x220 but task is already holding lock: ffff8c22016e88f8 (&cxl_root_key){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: device_release_driver_internal+0x39/0x210 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (&cxl_root_key){+.+.}-{3:3}: __mutex_lock+0x99/0xc30 uevent_show+0xac/0x130 dev_attr_show+0x18/0x40 sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xac/0xf0 seq_read_iter+0x110/0x450 vfs_read+0x25b/0x340 ksys_read+0x67/0xf0 do_syscall_64+0x75/0x190 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e -> #0 (kn->active#6){++++}-{0:0}: __lock_acquire+0x121a/0x1fa0 lock_acquire+0xd6/0x2e0 kernfs_drain+0x1e9/0x200 __kernfs_remove+0xde/0x220 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x5e/0xa0 device_del+0x168/0x410 device_unregister+0x13/0x60 devres_release_all+0xb8/0x110 device_unbind_cleanup+0xe/0x70 device_release_driver_internal+0x1c7/0x210 driver_detach+0x47/0x90 bus_remove_driver+0x6c/0xf0 cxl_acpi_exit+0xc/0x11 [cxl_acpi] __do_sys_delete_module.isra.0+0x181/0x260 do_syscall_64+0x75/0x190 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e The observation though is that driver objects are typically much longer lived than device objects. It is reasonable to perform lockless de-reference of a @driver pointer even if it is racing detach from a device. Given the infrequency of driver unregistration, use synchronize_rcu() in module_remove_driver() to close any potential races. It is potentially overkill to suffer synchronize_rcu() just to handle the rare module removal racing uevent_show() event. Thanks to Tetsuo Handa for the debug analysis of the syzbot report [1]. Fixes: c0a40097f0bc ("drivers: core: synchronize really_probe() and dev_uevent()") Reported-by: syzbot+4762dd74e32532cda5ff@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa Closes: http://lore.kernel.org/5aa5558f-90a4-4864-b1b1-5d6784c5607d@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp [1] Link: http://lore.kernel.org/669073b8ea479_5fffa294c1@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ashish Sangwan Cc: Namjae Jeon Cc: Dirk Behme Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/172081332794.577428.9738802016494057132.stgit@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers: core: synchronize really_probe() and dev_uevent()

2024-07-05T07:12:29+00:00

commit c0a40097f0bc81deafc15f9195d1fb54595cd6d0 upstream. Synchronize the dev->driver usage in really_probe() and dev_uevent(). These can run in different threads, what can result in the following race condition for dev->driver uninitialization: Thread #1: ========== really_probe() { ... probe_failed: ... device_unbind_cleanup(dev) { ... dev->driver = NULL; // <= Failed probe sets dev->driver to NULL ... } ... } Thread #2: ========== dev_uevent() { ... if (dev->driver) // If dev->driver is NULLed from really_probe() from here on, // after above check, the system crashes add_uevent_var(env, "DRIVER=%s", dev->driver->name); ... } really_probe() holds the lock, already. So nothing needs to be done there. dev_uevent() is called with lock held, often, too. But not always. What implies that we can't add any locking in dev_uevent() itself. So fix this race by adding the lock to the non-protected path. This is the path where above race is observed: dev_uevent+0x235/0x380 uevent_show+0x10c/0x1f0 <= Add lock here dev_attr_show+0x3a/0xa0 sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x17c/0x250 kernfs_seq_show+0x7c/0x90 seq_read_iter+0x2d7/0x940 kernfs_fop_read_iter+0xc6/0x310 vfs_read+0x5bc/0x6b0 ksys_read+0xeb/0x1b0 __x64_sys_read+0x42/0x50 x64_sys_call+0x27ad/0x2d30 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f Similar cases are reported by syzkaller in https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ffa8143439596313a85a But these are regarding the *initialization* of dev->driver dev->driver = drv; As this switches dev->driver to non-NULL these reports can be considered to be false-positives (which should be "fixed" by this commit, as well, though). The same issue was reported and tried to be fixed back in 2015 in https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1421259054-2574-1-git-send-email-a.sangwan@samsung.com/ already. Fixes: 239378f16aa1 ("Driver core: add uevent vars for devices of a class") Cc: stable Cc: syzbot+ffa8143439596313a85a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Cc: Ashish Sangwan Cc: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240513050634.3964461-1-dirk.behme@de.bosch.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: Introduce device_link_wait_removal()

2024-04-13T10:59:34+00:00

commit 0462c56c290a99a7f03e817ae5b843116dfb575c upstream. The commit 80dd33cf72d1 ("drivers: base: Fix device link removal") introduces a workqueue to release the consumer and supplier devices used in the devlink. In the job queued, devices are release and in turn, when all the references to these devices are dropped, the release function of the device itself is called. Nothing is present to provide some synchronisation with this workqueue in order to ensure that all ongoing releasing operations are done and so, some other operations can be started safely. For instance, in the following sequence: 1) of_platform_depopulate() 2) of_overlay_remove() During the step 1, devices are released and related devlinks are removed (jobs pushed in the workqueue). During the step 2, OF nodes are destroyed but, without any synchronisation with devlink removal jobs, of_overlay_remove() can raise warnings related to missing of_node_put(): ERROR: memory leak, expected refcount 1 instead of 2 Indeed, the missing of_node_put() call is going to be done, too late, from the workqueue job execution. Introduce device_link_wait_removal() to offer a way to synchronize operations waiting for the end of devlink removals (i.e. end of workqueue jobs). Also, as a flushing operation is done on the workqueue, the workqueue used is moved from a system-wide workqueue to a local one. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Herve Codina Tested-by: Luca Ceresoli Reviewed-by: Nuno Sa Reviewed-by: Saravana Kannan Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240325152140.198219-2-herve.codina@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Rob Herring Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: Move the "removable" attribute from USB to core

2023-12-08T07:46:15+00:00

[ Upstream commit 70f400d4d957c2453c8689552ff212bc59f88938 ] Move the "removable" attribute from USB to core in order to allow it to be supported by other subsystem / buses. Individual buses that want to support this attribute can populate the removable property of the device while enumerating it with the 3 possible values - - "unknown" - "fixed" - "removable" Leaving the field unchanged (i.e. "not supported") would mean that the attribute would not show up in sysfs for that device. The UAPI (location, symantics etc) for the attribute remains unchanged. Move the "removable" attribute from USB to the device core so it can be used by other subsystems / buses. By default, devices do not have a "removable" attribute in sysfs. If a subsystem or bus driver wants to support a "removable" attribute, it should call device_set_removable() before calling device_register() or device_add(), e.g.: device_set_removable(dev, DEVICE_REMOVABLE); device_register(dev); The possible values and the resulting sysfs attribute contents are: DEVICE_REMOVABLE_UNKNOWN -> "unknown" DEVICE_REMOVABLE -> "removable" DEVICE_FIXED -> "fixed" Convert the USB "removable" attribute to use this new device core functionality. There should be no user-visible change in the location or semantics of attribute for USB devices. Reviewed-by: Bjorn Helgaas Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210524171812.18095-1-rajatja@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Stable-dep-of: 432e664e7c98 ("drm/amdgpu: don't use ATRM for external devices") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

driver core: add a helper to setup both the of_node and fwnode of a device

2023-05-30T11:57:45+00:00

[ Upstream commit 43e76d463c09a0272b84775bcc727c1eb8b384b2 ] There are many places where both the fwnode_handle and the of_node of a device need to be populated. Add a function which does both so that we have consistency. Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Stable-dep-of: a26cc2934331 ("drm/mipi-dsi: Set the fwnode for mipi_dsi_device") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin