[PATCH v3 2/2] can: at91_can: fix rx-offload cleanup on unbind and probe errors

Ciprian Costea ciprianmarian.costea at oss.nxp.com
Tue Sep 1 03:41:03 PDT 2026


From: Ciprian Marian Costea <ciprianmarian.costea at oss.nxp.com>

Making can_rx_offload's skb_irq_queue per-CPU (previous patch) adds an
alloc_percpu() to can_rx_offload_add_*(). That allocation has to be freed
on teardown and can fail with -ENOMEM, which exposes three problems in
at91_can:

- at91_can_remove() does not call can_rx_offload_del(), so the NAPI
  instance and the per-CPU queues are leaked on unbind and module removal.

- The probe error path after a failed register_candev() jumps straight to
  free_candev() without can_rx_offload_del() and leaks the same objects.

- The return value of can_rx_offload_add_timestamp() is ignored. It can now
  return -ENOMEM with offload->skb_irq_queue == NULL, probe still succeeds,
  and the first RX interrupt dereferences that NULL pointer in
  can_rx_offload_irq_offload_timestamp() via get_cpu_ptr().

Check the return value and call can_rx_offload_del() from at91_can_remove()
and from a new error label taken when register_candev() fails.

Fixes: 137f59d5dab4 ("can: at91_can: switch to rx-offload implementation")
Signed-off-by: Ciprian Marian Costea <ciprianmarian.costea at oss.nxp.com>
---
 drivers/net/can/at91_can.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/at91_can.c b/drivers/net/can/at91_can.c
index 58da323f14d7..3f6c5bb373d3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/at91_can.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/at91_can.c
@@ -1123,7 +1123,9 @@ static int at91_can_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	priv->offload.mb_first = devtype_data->rx_first;
 	priv->offload.mb_last = devtype_data->rx_last;
 
-	can_rx_offload_add_timestamp(dev, &priv->offload);
+	err = can_rx_offload_add_timestamp(dev, &priv->offload);
+	if (err)
+		goto exit_free;
 
 	if (transceiver)
 		priv->can.bitrate_max = transceiver->attrs.max_link_rate;
@@ -1137,7 +1139,7 @@ static int at91_can_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	err = register_candev(dev);
 	if (err) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "registering netdev failed\n");
-		goto exit_free;
+		goto exit_offload;
 	}
 
 	dev_info(&pdev->dev, "device registered (reg_base=%p, irq=%d)\n",
@@ -1145,6 +1147,8 @@ static int at91_can_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	return 0;
 
+ exit_offload:
+	can_rx_offload_del(&priv->offload);
  exit_free:
 	free_candev(dev);
  exit_iounmap:
@@ -1165,6 +1169,8 @@ static void at91_can_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	unregister_netdev(dev);
 
+	can_rx_offload_del(&priv->offload);
+
 	iounmap(priv->reg_base);
 
 	res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
-- 
2.43.0




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