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From: Myeonghun Pak <mhun512@gmail.com>
To: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Myeonghun Pak <mhun512@gmail.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Ijae Kim <ae878000@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] net: airoha: npu: cancel wdt_work after releasing the WDT IRQ
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:09:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922000914.542068-1-mhun512@gmail.com> (raw)

airoha_npu_remove() calls cancel_work_sync() on each core's wdt_work,
but the watchdog IRQ that queues it is requested with devm_request_irq()
and is freed only after .remove() returns.  airoha_npu_wdt_handler() can
therefore schedule_work() again once the cancel has returned.  struct
airoha_npu, which contains the work, is devm_kzalloc()'d and is freed in
that same unwind, so the late work dereferences freed memory.

Register the work with devm_work_autocancel() before devm_request_irq()
and drop .remove().  Devres runs in reverse order, so the IRQ is freed
before cancel_work_sync(), including when probe fails.  A cancel left in
.remove() cannot get that order.  Initializing the work first also stops
a pending watchdog interrupt from queuing an uninitialized work item.
Probe currently calls INIT_WORK() only after devm_request_irq().

This issue was identified during our ongoing static-analysis research
while reviewing kernel code.

Fixes: 23290c7bc190 ("net: airoha: Introduce Airoha NPU support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.15+
Assisted-by: LLM
Co-developed-by: Ijae Kim <ae878000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ijae Kim <ae878000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Myeonghun Pak <mhun512@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_npu.c | 18 ++++++------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_npu.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_npu.c
index 5bb4817a898d..4d3195eb00f7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_npu.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_npu.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/devcoredump.h>
+#include <linux/devm-helpers.h>
 #include <linux/firmware.h>
 #include <linux/platform_device.h>
 #include <linux/of_net.h>
@@ -751,12 +752,15 @@ static int airoha_npu_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		if (irq < 0)
 			return irq;
 
+		err = devm_work_autocancel(dev, &core->wdt_work,
+					   airoha_npu_wdt_work);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
+
 		err = devm_request_irq(dev, irq, airoha_npu_wdt_handler,
 				       IRQF_SHARED, "airoha-npu-wdt", core);
 		if (err)
 			return err;
-
-		INIT_WORK(&core->wdt_work, airoha_npu_wdt_work);
 	}
 
 	/* wlan IRQ lines */
@@ -803,18 +807,8 @@ static int airoha_npu_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void airoha_npu_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
-{
-	struct airoha_npu *npu = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
-	int i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(npu->cores); i++)
-		cancel_work_sync(&npu->cores[i].wdt_work);
-}
-
 static struct platform_driver airoha_npu_driver = {
 	.probe = airoha_npu_probe,
-	.remove = airoha_npu_remove,
 	.driver = {
 		.name = "airoha-npu",
 		.of_match_table = of_airoha_npu_match,

base-commit: 238650ef6c7c7cca08e032527329424c9fbd70e5
-- 
2.53.0

             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-22  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-22  0:09 Myeonghun Pak [this message]
2026-09-22  8:15 ` Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-09-22  8:42   ` Lorenzo Bianconi

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