From: Danish Khateeb <danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>
To: lee@kernel.org, pavel@kernel.org
Cc: afd@ti.com, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Danish Khateeb <danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] leds: tca6507: Fix use-after-free on unbind
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:21:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260926172115.543800-1-danishkhateeb03@gmail.com> (raw)
Since the LEDs are registered with devm_led_classdev_register(), they
are unregistered only after tca6507_remove() has cancelled the work.
Unregistering an LED that is on turns it off, which queues the work
again from led_assign(), and the work then runs after devres has freed
the chip:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in assign_work+0x414/0x5b0
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888010d5c0c0 by task kworker/1:2/65
...
Last potentially related work creation:
...
queue_work_on+0xb6/0xc0
led_assign+0x223/0x340 [leds_tca6507]
led_classdev_unregister+0x26b/0x340
release_nodes+0xb3/0x140
devres_release_group+0x247/0x470
i2c_device_remove+0xbf/0x1b0
Set up the work with devm_work_autocancel() before the LEDs are
registered, so that devres cancels it after they are gone, and drop
tca6507_remove().
Fixes: 1b5c2fa7081c ("leds: tca6507: Use devm_led_classdev_register() to simplify remove path")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Danish Khateeb <danishkhateeb03@gmail.com>
---
Notes:
Tested in QEMU on a next-20260925 KASAN kernel, with the driver built as
a module and a test-only module that adds a fake I2C adapter and a
software node for a TCA6507 with two LEDs. With the LEDs on, unbinding
hits the report above (38 reports in 20 unbind/bind cycles), and so does
unloading the driver in 2 of 3 runs. With this patch there are no
reports in 20 cycles or 3 unloads, and the LEDs come back after each
rebind. A W=1 build with GPIOLIB is clean.
drivers/leds/leds-tca6507.c | 19 +++++++++----------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-tca6507.c b/drivers/leds/leds-tca6507.c
index 9afe2722986c..503a465a07f4 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/leds-tca6507.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/leds-tca6507.c
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
#include <linux/gpio/driver.h>
#include <linux/property.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
+#include <linux/devm-helpers.h>
/* LED select registers determine the source that drives LED outputs */
#define TCA6507_LS_LED_OFF 0x0 /* Output HI-Z (off) */
@@ -735,9 +736,15 @@ static int tca6507_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
return -ENOMEM;
tca->client = client;
- INIT_WORK(&tca->work, tca6507_work);
spin_lock_init(&tca->lock);
- i2c_set_clientdata(client, tca);
+
+ /*
+ * Unregistering the LEDs turns them off, which queues the work again,
+ * so it must be cancelled after them: set this up before registering.
+ */
+ err = devm_work_autocancel(dev, &tca->work, tca6507_work);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
for (i = 0; i < NUM_LEDS; i++) {
struct tca6507_led *l = tca->leds + i;
@@ -766,20 +773,12 @@ static int tca6507_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
return 0;
}
-static void tca6507_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
-{
- struct tca6507_chip *tca = i2c_get_clientdata(client);
-
- cancel_work_sync(&tca->work);
-}
-
static struct i2c_driver tca6507_driver = {
.driver = {
.name = "leds-tca6507",
.of_match_table = of_match_ptr(of_tca6507_leds_match),
},
.probe = tca6507_probe,
- .remove = tca6507_remove,
.id_table = tca6507_id,
};
base-commit: 05b4738b0078f7d6f154f68068a11c8a0635e9df
--
2.55.0
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