[PATCH v7 1/5] pinctrl: mediatek: use devm_gpiochip_add_data() for GPIO chip

AngeloGioacchino Del Regno angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com
Mon Sep 7 02:15:01 PDT 2026


On 7/23/26 05:58, Justin Yeh wrote:
> The gpio_chip is allocated with device-managed memory but registered with
> the non-managed gpiochip_add_data(). This was harmless while the drivers
> were built-in, but once they can be built as modules and unbound/rmmod'd,
> devm frees the gpio_chip's memory while it is still registered, causing a
> use-after-free.
> 
> Register it with devm_gpiochip_add_data() so it shares the same
> device-managed lifecycle, which also lets the manual gpiochip_remove()
> error paths go away.
> 
> Fixes: a6df410d420a ("pinctrl: mediatek: Add Pinctrl/GPIO driver for mt8135.")
> Fixes: 805250982bb5 ("pinctrl: mediatek: add pinctrl-paris that implements the vendor dt-bindings")
> Fixes: e78d57b2f87c ("pinctrl: mediatek: add pinctrl-moore that implements the generic pinctrl dt-bindings")
> Signed-off-by: Justin Yeh <justin.yeh at mediatek.com>
> Reviewed-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst at chromium.org>

Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>




More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list