[PATCH v5 1/4] pinctrl: mediatek: use devm_gpiochip_add_data() for GPIO chip

Justin Yeh justin.yeh at mediatek.com
Wed Jul 8 23:33:46 PDT 2026


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>
---
 drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-moore.c      |  6 ++----
 drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common.c | 14 ++++----------
 drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-paris.c      |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-moore.c b/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-moore.c
index 17e30f83dc19..38f15dbe9a28 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-moore.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-moore.c
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ static int mtk_build_gpiochip(struct mtk_pinctrl *hw)
 	chip->base		= -1;
 	chip->ngpio		= hw->soc->npins;
 
-	ret = gpiochip_add_data(chip, hw);
+	ret = devm_gpiochip_add_data(hw->dev, chip, hw);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
 
@@ -608,10 +608,8 @@ static int mtk_build_gpiochip(struct mtk_pinctrl *hw)
 	if (!of_property_present(hw->dev->of_node, "gpio-ranges")) {
 		ret = gpiochip_add_pin_range(chip, dev_name(hw->dev), 0, 0,
 					     chip->ngpio);
-		if (ret < 0) {
-			gpiochip_remove(chip);
+		if (ret < 0)
 			return ret;
-		}
 	}
 
 	return 0;
diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common.c b/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common.c
index dd2c8aa03938..791eddd7a2c6 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtk-common.c
@@ -1130,30 +1130,24 @@ int mtk_pctrl_init(struct platform_device *pdev,
 	pctl->chip->parent = &pdev->dev;
 	pctl->chip->base = -1;
 
-	ret = gpiochip_add_data(pctl->chip, pctl);
+	ret = devm_gpiochip_add_data(&pdev->dev, pctl->chip, pctl);
 	if (ret)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* Register the GPIO to pin mappings. */
 	ret = gpiochip_add_pin_range(pctl->chip, dev_name(&pdev->dev),
 			0, 0, pctl->devdata->npins);
-	if (ret) {
-		ret = -EINVAL;
-		goto chip_error;
-	}
+	if (ret)
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* Only initialize EINT if we have EINT pins */
 	if (data->eint_hw.ap_num > 0) {
 		ret = mtk_eint_init(pctl, pdev);
 		if (ret)
-			goto chip_error;
+			return ret;
 	}
 
 	return 0;
-
-chip_error:
-	gpiochip_remove(pctl->chip);
-	return ret;
 }
 
 int mtk_pctrl_common_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-paris.c b/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-paris.c
index 23f04b24fd65..09098b68f725 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-paris.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-paris.c
@@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ static int mtk_build_gpiochip(struct mtk_pinctrl *hw)
 	chip->base		= -1;
 	chip->ngpio		= hw->soc->npins;
 
-	ret = gpiochip_add_data(chip, hw);
+	ret = devm_gpiochip_add_data(hw->dev, chip, hw);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
 
-- 
2.45.2




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