[PATCH] i3c: master: Fix info leak and UAF in device unregister path
From: Adrian Hunter
Date: Thu Jul 23 2026 - 04:10:37 EST
i3c_master_unregister_i3c_devs() clears i3cdev->dev->desc before
calling device_unregister(). During device_unregister(),
device_del() emits a KOBJ_REMOVE uevent and unbinds the driver while
the device descriptor is still expected to be valid. As a result,
i3c_device_uevent() and a racing modalias_show() can observe a NULL
desc and fall back to an uninitialized stack struct i3c_device_info,
leaking kernel stack contents in the generated modalias. Driver
.remove() callbacks may also encounter an unexpected NULL desc during
unbind.
Keep desc valid until device_unregister() has completed. Since
device_unregister() drops the device reference and may free the device,
take an extra reference with get_device() before unregistering. Clear
desc afterwards and release the extra reference with put_device().
This preserves the release-time invariant that desc must be NULL while
avoiding both the information leak and a potential use-after-free from
writing desc after the device has been released.
Reported-by: sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-i3c/20260702190003.8BF741F000E9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Fixes: 3a379bbcea0a ("i3c: Add core I3C infrastructure")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/i3c/master.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/i3c/master.c b/drivers/i3c/master.c
index 659c14c2c192..433dc7531701 100644
--- a/drivers/i3c/master.c
+++ b/drivers/i3c/master.c
@@ -3083,11 +3083,12 @@ static void i3c_master_unregister_i3c_devs(struct i3c_master_controller *master)
if (!i3cdev->dev)
continue;
- i3cdev->dev->desc = NULL;
- if (device_is_registered(&i3cdev->dev->dev))
+ if (device_is_registered(&i3cdev->dev->dev)) {
+ get_device(&i3cdev->dev->dev);
device_unregister(&i3cdev->dev->dev);
- else
- put_device(&i3cdev->dev->dev);
+ }
+ i3cdev->dev->desc = NULL;
+ put_device(&i3cdev->dev->dev);
i3cdev->dev = NULL;
}
}
--
2.53.0