Re: [RFC PATCH] spi: fix use-after-free of the add_lock mutex

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 05:08:36PM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
> Commit 6098475d4cb4 ("spi: Fix deadlock when adding SPI controllers on
> SPI buses") introduced a per-controller mutex. But mutex_unlock() of
> said lock is called after the controller is already freed:
> 
>   spi_unregister_controller(ctlr)
>    -> put_device(&ctlr->dev)
>     -> spi_controller_release(dev)
>   mutex_unlock(&ctrl->add_lock)
> 
> Move the put_device() after the mutex_unlock().

Do we even need to unlock the mutex here?

> 
> For reference, the kernel oops is:
> [   20.242505] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0042a2203dc65260
> [   20.250468] Mem abort info:
> [   20.253270]   ESR = 0x96000044

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