[PATCH 1/5] spi: fix use-after-free on controller registration failure

From: Johan Hovold

Date: Thu Mar 12 2026 - 11:26:31 EST


Make sure to deregister from driver core also in the unlikely event that
per-cpu statistics allocation fails during controller registration to
avoid use-after-free (of driver resources) and unclocked register
accesses.

Fixes: 6598b91b5ac3 ("spi: spi.c: Convert statistics to per-cpu u64_stats_t")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 6.0
Cc: David Jander <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi.c b/drivers/spi/spi.c
index 61f7bde8c7fb..9b2e307dc30a 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c
@@ -3480,10 +3480,8 @@ int spi_register_controller(struct spi_controller *ctlr)
dev_info(dev, "controller is unqueued, this is deprecated\n");
} else if (ctlr->transfer_one || ctlr->transfer_one_message) {
status = spi_controller_initialize_queue(ctlr);
- if (status) {
- device_del(&ctlr->dev);
- goto free_bus_id;
- }
+ if (status)
+ goto del_ctrl;
}
/* Add statistics */
ctlr->pcpu_statistics = spi_alloc_pcpu_stats(dev);
@@ -3506,6 +3504,8 @@ int spi_register_controller(struct spi_controller *ctlr)

destroy_queue:
spi_destroy_queue(ctlr);
+del_ctrl:
+ device_del(&ctlr->dev);
free_bus_id:
mutex_lock(&board_lock);
idr_remove(&spi_controller_idr, ctlr->bus_num);
--
2.52.0