[PATCH v3 1/2] leds: tca6507: Fix use-after-free on unbind

From: Danish Khateeb

Date: Wed Oct 28 2026 - 13:44:24 EST


Since the LEDs are registered with devm_led_classdev_register(), they
are unregistered only after tca6507_remove() has cancelled the work.
Unregistering an LED that is on turns it off, which queues the work
again from led_assign(), and the work then runs after devres has freed
the chip:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in assign_work+0x414/0x5b0
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888010d5c0c0 by task kworker/1:2/65
...
Last potentially related work creation:
...
queue_work_on+0xb6/0xc0
led_assign+0x223/0x340 [leds_tca6507]
led_classdev_unregister+0x26b/0x340
release_nodes+0xb3/0x140
devres_release_group+0x247/0x470
i2c_device_remove+0xbf/0x1b0

Set up the work with devm_work_autocancel() before the LEDs are
registered, so that devres cancels it after they are gone, and drop
tca6507_remove().

Fixes: 1b5c2fa7081c ("leds: tca6507: Use devm_led_classdev_register() to simplify remove path")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Andrew Davis <afd@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Danish Khateeb <danishkhateeb03@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/leds/leds-tca6507.c | 15 +++++----------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-tca6507.c b/drivers/leds/leds-tca6507.c
index 9afe2722986c..0f987e551f03 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/leds-tca6507.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/leds-tca6507.c
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
* not recognised when matching.
*/

+#include <linux/devm-helpers.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/leds.h>
@@ -735,9 +736,11 @@ static int tca6507_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
return -ENOMEM;

tca->client = client;
- INIT_WORK(&tca->work, tca6507_work);
spin_lock_init(&tca->lock);
- i2c_set_clientdata(client, tca);
+
+ err = devm_work_autocancel(dev, &tca->work, tca6507_work);
+ if (err)
+ return err;

for (i = 0; i < NUM_LEDS; i++) {
struct tca6507_led *l = tca->leds + i;
@@ -766,20 +769,12 @@ static int tca6507_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
return 0;
}

-static void tca6507_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
-{
- struct tca6507_chip *tca = i2c_get_clientdata(client);
-
- cancel_work_sync(&tca->work);
-}
-
static struct i2c_driver tca6507_driver = {
.driver = {
.name = "leds-tca6507",
.of_match_table = of_match_ptr(of_tca6507_leds_match),
},
.probe = tca6507_probe,
- .remove = tca6507_remove,
.id_table = tca6507_id,
};

--
2.56.0