Re: [PATCH v3] eeprom: at24: fix memory corruption race condition

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Apr 22 2024 - 18:09:53 EST


On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 05:43:36PM +0000, Daniel Okazaki wrote:
> If the eeprom is not accessible, an nvmem device will be registered, the
> read will fail, and the device will be torn down. If another driver
> accesses the nvmem device after the teardown, it will reference
> invalid memory.
>
> Move the failure point before registering the nvmem device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Okazaki <dtokazaki@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: b20eb4c1f026 ("eeprom: at24: drop unnecessary label")
> ---
> Changed sha length to 12 in description
> ---

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