[PATCH 4/5] extcon: rt8973a: cancel wq_detcable on driver unbind

From: Tristan Madani

Date: Tue Oct 20 2026 - 11:46:28 EST


From: Tristan Madani <tristan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The driver schedules wq_detcable as a delayed work during probe but
the remove callback only tears down the regmap IRQ chip and never
cancels it. If the device is unbound before the work fires, the
callback dereferences freed memory because the driver data is managed
by devm.

Use devm_delayed_work_autocancel() so the work is automatically
cancelled when the device is removed.

Fixes: c03e017c4d3d ("extcon: rt8973a: Add Richtek RT8973A extcon driver")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani <tristan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/extcon/extcon-rt8973a.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/extcon/extcon-rt8973a.c b/drivers/extcon/extcon-rt8973a.c
index 19bb49f13fb08..184e9f4c16ce3 100644
--- a/drivers/extcon/extcon-rt8973a.c
+++ b/drivers/extcon/extcon-rt8973a.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
* Author: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
*/

+#include <linux/devm-helpers.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/i2c.h>
#include <linux/input.h>
@@ -635,7 +636,10 @@ static int rt8973a_muic_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c)
* After completing the booting of platform, the extcon provider
* driver should notify cable state to upper layer.
*/
- INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&info->wq_detcable, rt8973a_muic_detect_cable_wq);
+ ret = devm_delayed_work_autocancel(&i2c->dev, &info->wq_detcable,
+ rt8973a_muic_detect_cable_wq);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &info->wq_detcable,
msecs_to_jiffies(DELAY_MS_DEFAULT));

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