[PATCH] gpio: aggregator: fix a potential use-after-free

From: Bartosz Golaszewski

Date: Wed May 20 2026 - 05:24:55 EST


On error we free aggr->lookups->dev_id before removing the entry from
the lookup table. If a concurrent thread calls gpiod_find() before we
remove the entry, it could iterate over the list and call
gpiod_match_lookup_table() which unconditionally dereferences dev_id
when calling strcmp(). Reverse the order of cleanup.

Fixes: 86f162e73d2d ("gpio: aggregator: introduce basic configfs interface")
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c
index 5915209e1e21..b53230065f50 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-aggregator.c
@@ -979,8 +979,8 @@ static int gpio_aggregator_activate(struct gpio_aggregator *aggr)
err_unregister_pdev:
platform_device_unregister(pdev);
err_remove_lookup_table:
- kfree(aggr->lookups->dev_id);
gpiod_remove_lookup_table(aggr->lookups);
+ kfree(aggr->lookups->dev_id);
err_remove_swnode:
fwnode_remove_software_node(swnode);
err_remove_lookups:
--
2.47.3