[PATCH] drm/xe/i2c: cancel the client work on remove
From: Fan Wu
Date: Wed Sep 09 2026 - 01:25:43 EST
xe_i2c_notifier() stores the DesignWare adapter in i2c->adapter and
schedules i2c->work when the adapter is registered under the xe I2C
platform device, and xe_i2c_client_work() then instantiates the AMC
client device on that adapter.
xe_i2c_remove() unregisters the client devices, the bus notifier and
the adapter platform device, but it never drains i2c->work. A work
item that is still queued or running when the adapter is unregistered
dereferences i2c->adapter in i2c_new_client_device() after
platform_device_unregister() has released the adapter. The work item
is also embedded in the devm-allocated struct xe_i2c, so a work item
still queued after the drm device devm unwind frees that allocation
runs its callback on freed memory.
Cancel the work in xe_i2c_remove(), after bus_unregister_notifier()
so that no new instance can be scheduled, and before the adapter is
unregistered so that a running instance still finds a live adapter.
This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.
Fixes: f0e53aadd702 ("drm/xe: Support for I2C attached MCUs")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6
Co-developed-by: Song Li <songl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Song Li <songl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <fanwu01@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.c
index 706783863d07..5a176d78193b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.c
@@ -311,6 +311,7 @@ static void xe_i2c_remove(void *data)
i2c_unregister_device(i2c->client[i]);
bus_unregister_notifier(&i2c_bus_type, &i2c->bus_notifier);
+ cancel_work_sync(&i2c->work);
xe_i2c_unregister_adapter(i2c);
xe_i2c_remove_irq(i2c);
}