From: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH net v3] net: emac: mal: replace devm_request_irq with request_irq to fix probe error race
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 11:38:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261007183821.928263-1-rosenp@gmail.com> (raw)
devm_request_irq() is a managed resource: the IRQ is not freed until
devres_release_all() runs after the probe function returns. In the
probe error path, free_netdev(mal->dummy_dev) and dcr_unmap() execute
while the IRQ is still live. If the shared IRQ fires during cleanup,
the handler accesses unmapped DCR registers (crash) or the already-
freed dummy_dev (use-after-free).
Switch to plain request_irq() with per-IRQ error labels that tear down
only the IRQs that were successfully registered, and add the matching
free_irq() calls in mal_remove().
Fixes: 14f59154ff0b ("net: ibm: emac: mal: use devm for request_irq")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
---
v3: add Reviewed-by and fix Assisted-by.
v2: rebase and add tested comment
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c
index 42027665f2a9..236603a381bc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c
@@ -665,26 +665,26 @@ static int mal_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
hdlr_rxde = mal_rxde;
}
- err = devm_request_irq(&ofdev->dev, mal->serr_irq, hdlr_serr, irqflags,
- "MAL SERR", mal);
+ err = request_irq(mal->serr_irq, hdlr_serr, irqflags,
+ "MAL SERR", mal);
if (err)
goto fail2;
- err = devm_request_irq(&ofdev->dev, mal->txde_irq, hdlr_txde, irqflags,
- "MAL TX DE", mal);
+ err = request_irq(mal->txde_irq, hdlr_txde, irqflags,
+ "MAL TX DE", mal);
if (err)
- goto fail2;
- err = devm_request_irq(&ofdev->dev, mal->txeob_irq, mal_txeob, 0,
- "MAL TX EOB", mal);
+ goto fail_serr_irq;
+ err = request_irq(mal->txeob_irq, mal_txeob, 0,
+ "MAL TX EOB", mal);
if (err)
- goto fail2;
- err = devm_request_irq(&ofdev->dev, mal->rxde_irq, hdlr_rxde, irqflags,
- "MAL RX DE", mal);
+ goto fail_txde_irq;
+ err = request_irq(mal->rxde_irq, hdlr_rxde, irqflags,
+ "MAL RX DE", mal);
if (err)
- goto fail2;
- err = devm_request_irq(&ofdev->dev, mal->rxeob_irq, mal_rxeob, 0,
- "MAL RX EOB", mal);
+ goto fail_txeob_irq;
+ err = request_irq(mal->rxeob_irq, mal_rxeob, 0,
+ "MAL RX EOB", mal);
if (err)
- goto fail2;
+ goto fail_rxde_irq;
/* Enable all MAL SERR interrupt sources */
set_mal_dcrn(mal, MAL_IER, MAL_IER_EVENTS);
@@ -703,6 +703,14 @@ static int mal_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
return 0;
+ fail_rxde_irq:
+ free_irq(mal->rxde_irq, mal);
+ fail_txeob_irq:
+ free_irq(mal->txeob_irq, mal);
+ fail_txde_irq:
+ free_irq(mal->txde_irq, mal);
+ fail_serr_irq:
+ free_irq(mal->serr_irq, mal);
fail2:
dma_free_coherent(&ofdev->dev, bd_size, mal->bd_virt, mal->bd_dma);
fail_dummy:
@@ -729,6 +737,13 @@ static void mal_remove(struct platform_device *ofdev)
mal_reset(mal);
+ /* Free IRQs before freeing resources they access */
+ free_irq(mal->serr_irq, mal);
+ free_irq(mal->txde_irq, mal);
+ free_irq(mal->txeob_irq, mal);
+ free_irq(mal->rxde_irq, mal);
+ free_irq(mal->rxeob_irq, mal);
+
free_netdev(mal->dummy_dev);
dcr_unmap(mal->dcr_host, 0x100);
--
2.56.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-07 18:38 UTC|newest]
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