[PATCH] PCI: Handle dev_set_name() failure in pci_setup_device()
From: Rihyeon Kim
Date: Sat Jul 25 2026 - 06:48:19 EST
pci_setup_device() calls dev_set_name() but ignores its return value.
dev_set_name() allocates the name with kvasprintf() and can fail, leaving
dev->kobj.name NULL.
Enumeration then continues with an unnamed device. device_add() rejects
it with -EINVAL because dev_name() returns NULL and pci_bus_type has no
->dev_name callback, but pci_device_add() only WARNs about that failure:
pci (null): [8086:2934] type 00 class 0x0c0300 conventional PCI endpoint
pci (null): BAR 4 [io 0xc0e0-0xc0ff]
------------[ cut here ]------------
ret < 0
WARNING: drivers/pci/probe.c:2768 at pci_device_add+0x133b/0x1810
Call Trace:
pci_scan_single_device+0x1d0/0x240
pci_scan_slot+0x1c9/0x7c0
pci_scan_child_bus_extend+0x6b/0x7b0
pci_rescan_bus+0x18/0x40
rescan_store+0xfb/0x130
The device was already put on bus->devices before device_add() ran and is
not removed from it, so pci_bus_add_devices() later in the same
pci_rescan_bus() call picks it up and hands it to __device_attach(), which
dereferences dev->p. device_add() freed dev->p on its error path, so this
is a NULL dereference:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ...
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000108-0x000000000000010f]
RIP: 0010:__device_attach+0xb0/0x4d0
Call Trace:
device_initial_probe+0xaf/0xd0
pci_bus_add_device+0xc5/0x100
pci_bus_add_devices+0x9a/0x1f0
pci_rescan_bus+0x2a/0x40
rescan_store+0xfb/0x130
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Propagate the error instead. pci_setup_device() already returns int and
both callers, pci_scan_device() and pci_iov_scan_device(), release the
device on failure, so no caller changes are needed. Release the OF node
first, matching the existing error path for an unknown header type.
Fixes: eebfcfb52ce7 ("PCI: handle pci_name() being const")
Reported-by: syzbot+87bb32e345aa80c0554b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=87bb32e345aa80c0554b
Tested-by: syzbot+87bb32e345aa80c0554b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Rihyeon Kim <rihyeon8648@xxxxxxxxx>
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Found by syzbot. The reproducer is the one from the report, unmodified.
Tested on 48a5a7ab8d6a with syzbot's config for this bug (x86_64, KASAN,
CONFIG_FAILSLAB), under QEMU with "-machine q35 -usb" so that the
0000:00:1d.0 the reproducer removes and rescans exists:
before fault injected in dev_set_name() -> "pci (null): [8086:2934] ..."
-> WARNING at probe.c:2768 -> GPF in __device_attach() -> panic
after fault still injected at the same call site, no unnamed device,
no WARNING, no oops. The device is skipped for that scan and
comes back, driver bound, on the next "echo 1 > .../rescan".
syzbot reproduces this on arm64 too, at 0000:00:01.0 with a virtio device,
so it is not specific to that controller.
Two things I noticed while working on this and deliberately left alone,
since they look like separate changes:
- pci_scan_device() releases the pci_dev with kfree() rather than
put_device(), so on the existing "unknown header type" -EIO path the
name allocated by dev_set_name() is leaked. That was reported in 2022
[1] but never applied.
- pci_device_add() ignores device_add() failure entirely; the WARN_ON() is
all there is and the half-added device stays on bus->devices. I built a
kernel with [2] applied (it stops device_add() from freeing dev->p) and
the NULL dereference above does go away, but the WARNING and the stale
bus->devices entry remain. Happy to follow up on that separately if you
think it is worth doing.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20220817084444.2876059-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260716230411.2767394-2-tarunsahu@xxxxxxxxxx/
drivers/pci/probe.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
index dd0abbc63e18..474c6cb327be 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
@@ -2052,9 +2052,13 @@ int pci_setup_device(struct pci_dev *dev)
*/
dev->msi_addr_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(64);
- dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "%04x:%02x:%02x.%d", pci_domain_nr(dev->bus),
- dev->bus->number, PCI_SLOT(dev->devfn),
- PCI_FUNC(dev->devfn));
+ err = dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "%04x:%02x:%02x.%d",
+ pci_domain_nr(dev->bus), dev->bus->number,
+ PCI_SLOT(dev->devfn), PCI_FUNC(dev->devfn));
+ if (err) {
+ pci_release_of_node(dev);
+ return err;
+ }
class = pci_class(dev);
--
2.43.0