[PATCH V5 06/14] i3c: master: Fix potential UAF in i3c_device_uevent()

From: Adrian Hunter

Date: Fri Aug 07 2026 - 11:23:23 EST


i3c_device_uevent() dereferences i3cdev->desc without holding the bus
normal-use lock. Since the descriptor pointer can be replaced
concurrently, including when a uevent is generated from sysfs, this can
result in dereferencing a stale descriptor and lead to a use-after-free.

Use i3c_device_get_info() instead, which protects access to the
descriptor with the normal-use lock.

Commit 6cf7b65f7029 ("i3c: Use i3cdev->desc->info instead of calling
i3c_device_get_info() to avoid deadlock") replaced the accessor with a
direct descriptor dereference because i3c_device_get_info() would
recursively acquire bus->lock during device registration.

This change depends on "i3c: master: Fix recursive locking during device
registration", which moves device registration out from under bus->lock
and removes the possibility of that deadlock. Without that change,
restoring the i3c_device_get_info() call would reintroduce the deadlock.

Fixes: 6cf7b65f7029 ("i3c: Use i3cdev->desc->info instead of calling i3c_device_get_info() to avoid deadlock")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # requires "i3c: master: Fix recursive locking during device registration"
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mukesh Savaliya <mukesh.savaliya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@xxxxxxx>
---


Changes in V5:

Added Frank's Rev'd-by

Changes in V4:

Added Mukesh's Acked-by tag

Changes in V3:

New patch


drivers/i3c/master.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i3c/master.c b/drivers/i3c/master.c
index 2357874bb9d6..ee771ac0b203 100644
--- a/drivers/i3c/master.c
+++ b/drivers/i3c/master.c
@@ -316,8 +316,7 @@ static int i3c_device_uevent(const struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *e
struct i3c_device_info devinfo;
u16 manuf, part, ext;

- if (i3cdev->desc)
- devinfo = i3cdev->desc->info;
+ i3c_device_get_info(i3cdev, &devinfo);
manuf = I3C_PID_MANUF_ID(devinfo.pid);
part = I3C_PID_PART_ID(devinfo.pid);
ext = I3C_PID_EXTRA_INFO(devinfo.pid);
--
2.53.0