Re: [PATCH 1/3] soc: mediatek: mtk-socinfo: Clean up NVMEM cell read

[AngeloGioacchino Del Regno]

Il 30/01/24 10:56, Chen-Yu Tsai ha scritto:
> The mtk-socinfo grabs the NVMEM device devm_nvmem_device_get(), but then
> proceeds to put the device directly with nvmem_device_put() if the read
> is successful. If the device fails to probe and goes through the devres
> release path, the device would be put a second time, triggering a
> use-after-free error from KASAN.
>
> Fix this by dropping the devres part. Since the NVMEM cell data is read
> only once, there is no need to keep the reference around.
>
> While at it, clean up the function to directly reference the NVMEM
> device node and use that to find the NVMEM device, instead of finding it
> by name, which is more fragile. The cell node is always a direct child
> of the NVMEM device node, courtesy of the legacy NVMEM cell layout. Thus
> of_get_child_by_name() is a better way of finding the cell. Last,
> correctly put the device node once its use is over.
>
> Fixes: 423a54da3c7e ("soc: mediatek: mtk-socinfo: Add driver for getting chip information")
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>