[PATCH] usb: cdns3: imx: fix kernel panic on remove due to kfree of static platform_data
From: Xu Yang
Date: Mon Oct 19 2026 - 04:50:38 EST
From: Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@xxxxxxx>
When cdns_imx_remove() calls of_platform_depopulate(), the child
platform device is destroyed. platform_device_release() then calls
kfree(pdev->dev.platform_data), but cdns3-imx assigns a pointer to
a static global variable as platform_data, so kfree() on it triggers
a kernel panic.
[ 56.809541] Call trace:
[ 56.811982] kfree+0x44/0x398 (P)
[ 56.815300] platform_device_release+0x24/0x4c
[ 56.819747] device_release+0x3c/0xa0
[ 56.823413] kobject_put+0xa0/0x120
[ 56.826906] klist_children_put+0x18/0x28
[ 56.830920] klist_prev+0xb4/0x1c0
[ 56.834325] device_for_each_child_reverse+0x7c/0xc8
[ 56.839294] of_platform_depopulate+0x34/0x80
[ 56.843664] cdns_imx_remove+0x34/0xcc [cdns3_imx]
Fix this by iterating over child devices and clearing platform_data
to NULL before of_platform_depopulate() is called, preventing the
invalid kfree().
Fixes: ff6d6e6c6778 ("usb: cdns3: imx: add glue layer runtime pm implementation")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/cdns3/cdns3-imx.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/cdns3/cdns3-imx.c b/drivers/usb/cdns3/cdns3-imx.c
index a2f041e1707c..2c86fadd2cf2 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/cdns3/cdns3-imx.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/cdns3/cdns3-imx.c
@@ -218,12 +218,20 @@ static int cdns_imx_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return ret;
}
+static int cdns_imx_reset_pdata(struct device *dev, void *data)
+{
+ if (device_is_compatible(dev, "cdns,usb3"))
+ dev->platform_data = NULL;
+ return 0;
+}
+
static void cdns_imx_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
struct cdns_imx *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
pm_runtime_get_sync(dev);
+ device_for_each_child(dev, NULL, cdns_imx_reset_pdata);
of_platform_depopulate(dev);
clk_bulk_disable_unprepare(data->num_clks, data->clks);
pm_runtime_disable(dev);
--
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