[PATCH] spi: oc-tiny: switch to managed controller allocation
From: Fan Wu
Date: Sat Jul 18 2026 - 21:02:11 EST
The controller is allocated with the non-managed spi_alloc_host() while
the interrupt is registered with devm_request_irq(). During removal,
spi_bitbang_stop() only unregisters the controller; the subsequent
spi_controller_put() then frees the controller together with its
embedded driver-private devdata, which is the IRQ handler's dev_id. The
devm_request_irq() release action (free_irq()), which drains the
handler, does not run until after .remove() returns. A late or latched
interrupt can therefore reach tiny_spi_irq() and dereference
already-freed memory (e.g. hw->base).
Switch to devm_spi_alloc_host() so that the devres LIFO order releases
the controller only after free_irq() has drained the handler, and drop
the now-redundant spi_controller_put() from .remove(). The probe error
path is simplified to direct returns.
This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.
Fixes: ce792580ea2c ("spi: add OpenCores tiny SPI driver")
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6
Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <fanwu01@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/spi/spi-oc-tiny.c | 24 ++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-oc-tiny.c b/drivers/spi/spi-oc-tiny.c
index 29333b1f82d7..1cd2a934c032 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-oc-tiny.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-oc-tiny.c
@@ -210,11 +210,11 @@ static int tiny_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
struct tiny_spi_platform_data *platp = dev_get_platdata(&pdev->dev);
struct tiny_spi *hw;
struct spi_controller *host;
- int err = -ENODEV;
+ int err;
- host = spi_alloc_host(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct tiny_spi));
+ host = devm_spi_alloc_host(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct tiny_spi));
if (!host)
- return err;
+ return -ENOMEM;
/* setup the host state. */
host->bus_num = pdev->id;
@@ -232,10 +232,8 @@ static int tiny_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
/* find and map our resources */
hw->base = devm_platform_ioremap_resource(pdev, 0);
- if (IS_ERR(hw->base)) {
- err = PTR_ERR(hw->base);
- goto exit;
- }
+ if (IS_ERR(hw->base))
+ return PTR_ERR(hw->base);
/* irq is optional */
hw->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
if (hw->irq >= 0) {
@@ -243,7 +241,7 @@ static int tiny_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
err = devm_request_irq(&pdev->dev, hw->irq, tiny_spi_irq, 0,
pdev->name, hw);
if (err)
- goto exit;
+ return err;
}
/* find platform data */
if (platp) {
@@ -252,29 +250,23 @@ static int tiny_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
} else {
err = tiny_spi_of_probe(pdev);
if (err)
- goto exit;
+ return err;
}
/* register our spi controller */
err = spi_bitbang_start(&hw->bitbang);
if (err)
- goto exit;
+ return err;
dev_info(&pdev->dev, "base %p, irq %d\n", hw->base, hw->irq);
return 0;
-
-exit:
- spi_controller_put(host);
- return err;
}
static void tiny_spi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct tiny_spi *hw = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
- struct spi_controller *host = hw->bitbang.ctlr;
spi_bitbang_stop(&hw->bitbang);
- spi_controller_put(host);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_OF
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