[PATCH 3/9] power: supply: max77705: Free allocated workqueue and fix removal order

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at oss.qualcomm.com
Sun Feb 22 23:27:31 PST 2026


Use devm interface for allocating workqueue to fix two bugs at the same
time:

1. Driver leaks the memory on remove(), because the workqueue is not
   destroyed.

2. Driver allocates workqueue and then registers interrupt handlers
   with devm interface.  This means that probe error paths will not use a
   reversed order, but first the destroy workqueue and then, via devm
   release handlers, free the interrupt.

   The interrupt handler schedules work on this exact workqueue, thus if
   interrupt is hit in this short time window - after destroying
   workqueue, but before devm() frees the interrupt, the work scheduling
   will lead to use of freed memory.

Fixes: 11741b8e382d ("power: supply: max77705: Fix workqueue error handling in probe")
Fixes: a6a494c8e3ce ("power: supply: max77705: Add charger driver for Maxim 77705")
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski at oss.qualcomm.com>
---
 drivers/power/supply/max77705_charger.c | 36 ++++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/max77705_charger.c b/drivers/power/supply/max77705_charger.c
index 5dd02f658f5b..de12c215366c 100644
--- a/drivers/power/supply/max77705_charger.c
+++ b/drivers/power/supply/max77705_charger.c
@@ -646,51 +646,37 @@ static int max77705_charger_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c)
 	if (ret)
 		return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to add irq chip\n");
 
-	chg->wqueue = create_singlethread_workqueue(dev_name(dev));
+	chg->wqueue = devm_create_singlethread_workqueue(dev, dev_name(dev));
 	if (!chg->wqueue)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	ret = devm_work_autocancel(dev, &chg->chgin_work, max77705_chgin_isr_work);
-	if (ret) {
-		dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to initialize interrupt work\n");
-		goto destroy_wq;
-	}
+	if (ret)
+		return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to initialize interrupt work\n");
 
 	ret = max77705_charger_initialize(chg);
-	if (ret) {
-		dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to initialize charger IC\n");
-		goto destroy_wq;
-	}
+	if (ret)
+		return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to initialize charger IC\n");
 
 	ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, regmap_irq_get_virq(irq_data, MAX77705_CHGIN_I),
 					NULL, max77705_chgin_irq,
 					IRQF_TRIGGER_NONE,
 					"chgin-irq", chg);
-	if (ret) {
-		dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "Failed to Request chgin IRQ\n");
-		goto destroy_wq;
-	}
+	if (ret)
+		return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "Failed to Request chgin IRQ\n");
 
 	ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(dev, regmap_irq_get_virq(irq_data, MAX77705_AICL_I),
 					NULL, max77705_aicl_irq,
 					IRQF_TRIGGER_NONE,
 					"aicl-irq", chg);
-	if (ret) {
-		dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "Failed to Request aicl IRQ\n");
-		goto destroy_wq;
-	}
+	if (ret)
+		return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "Failed to Request aicl IRQ\n");
 
 	ret = max77705_charger_enable(chg);
-	if (ret) {
-		dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to enable charge\n");
-		goto destroy_wq;
-	}
+	if (ret)
+		return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to enable charge\n");
 
 	return devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, max77705_charger_disable, chg);
-
-destroy_wq:
-	destroy_workqueue(chg->wqueue);
-	return ret;
 }
 
 static const struct of_device_id max77705_charger_of_match[] = {

-- 
2.51.0




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