[PATCH] power: supply: charger-manager: tear down sysfs and disable charging before freeing regulators
From: Fan Wu
Date: Sun Jul 26 2026 - 01:17:51 EST
charger_manager_remove() and the err_reg_extcon probe error path call
regulator_put() before tearing down the power_supply sysfs entries
(power_supply_unregister()). charger_manager_remove() also calls
try_charger_enable(cm, false) after the regulator_put() loop. A concurrent
write to a charger's externally_control sysfs attribute that lands between
regulator_put() and power_supply_unregister() can run
charger_externally_control_store() and call try_charger_enable(), which,
when charging is enabled, dereferences the already-freed consumer handle
via regulator_enable(), regulator_disable(), regulator_is_enabled() and
regulator_force_disable(). When charging is enabled, try_charger_enable(cm,
false) in .remove() also dereferences the freed handles directly. Both
leave use-after-free windows.
Move power_supply_unregister() ahead of the regulator_put() loop on both
paths. It ends in device_unregister(), which removes the sysfs attribute
groups and drains active kernfs operations, so on return no
externally_control store can be running or start again; it does not touch
the regulator consumers, and psy->desc references the devm-managed
cm->charger_psy_desc, which outlives the call. Move try_charger_enable(cm,
false) before the regulator_put() loop in .remove() as well, so the
synchronous disable also runs on valid handles.
This does not address the separate extcon-notifier path, which needs its
own synchronization design.
Found by an in-house static analysis tool.
Fixes: 3950c7865cd7 ("charger-manager: Add support sysfs entry for charger")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6
Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <fanwu01@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/power/supply/charger-manager.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/charger-manager.c b/drivers/power/supply/charger-manager.c
index c49e0e4d02f7..c1df512f32a8 100644
--- a/drivers/power/supply/charger-manager.c
+++ b/drivers/power/supply/charger-manager.c
@@ -1622,11 +1622,11 @@ static int charger_manager_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return 0;
err_reg_extcon:
+ power_supply_unregister(cm->charger_psy);
+
for (i = 0; i < desc->num_charger_regulators; i++)
regulator_put(desc->charger_regulators[i].consumer);
- power_supply_unregister(cm->charger_psy);
-
return ret;
}
@@ -1644,12 +1644,12 @@ static void charger_manager_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
cancel_work_sync(&setup_polling);
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&cm_monitor_work);
- for (i = 0 ; i < desc->num_charger_regulators ; i++)
- regulator_put(desc->charger_regulators[i].consumer);
+ try_charger_enable(cm, false);
power_supply_unregister(cm->charger_psy);
- try_charger_enable(cm, false);
+ for (i = 0 ; i < desc->num_charger_regulators ; i++)
+ regulator_put(desc->charger_regulators[i].consumer);
}
static const struct platform_device_id charger_manager_id[] = {
--
2.34.1