[PATCH v2 1/2] PCI: Handle dev_set_name() failure in pci_setup_device()

From: Rihyeon Kim

Date: Sun Jul 26 2026 - 05:41:42 EST


pci_setup_device() calls dev_set_name() but ignores its return value.
dev_set_name() calls kobject_set_name_vargs(), which in turn allocates the
name with kvasprintf_const() and can fail, leaving dev->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 added to 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 finds it and passes it to __device_attach(), which
dereferences dev->p. device_add() freed dev->p on its error path, so this
is a NULL pointer 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

Check the return value and propagate the error instead. pci_setup_device()
already returns int, and both callers, pci_scan_device() and
pci_iov_scan_device(), already release the device when it fails. Release
the OF node first, like the existing unknown header type path does, and
update the kernel-doc for the new return value.

Fixes: 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array")
Reported-by: syzbot+87bb32e345aa80c0554b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=87bb32e345aa80c0554b
Tested-by: syzbot+87bb32e345aa80c0554b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Wilczyński <kwilczynski@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 sparse
Signed-off-by: Rihyeon Kim <rihyeon8648@xxxxxxxxx>
---
The reproducer is the one from the syzbot 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 it removes and rescans exists. Without the patch it gives the
WARNING and then the panic quoted above; with it the allocation still fails
in dev_set_name(), enumeration skips the device, and the device comes back
on the next rescan. syzbot tested it as well.

The report also has an arm64 crash at 0000:00:01.0 with a virtio device, so
this is not specific to that controller.

v2:
- Fixes: points at 1fa5ae857bb1 rather than eebfcfb52ce7 (Krzysztof)
- update the kernel-doc for the new return value (Krzysztof)
- say kvasprintf_const() rather than kvasprintf() in the commit log
(Krzysztof)
- pick up Reviewed-by

drivers/pci/probe.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
index dd0abbc63e18..3e6f0eb7d456 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
@@ -2010,8 +2010,9 @@ static const char *pci_type_str(struct pci_dev *dev)
* Initialize the device structure with information about the device's
* vendor,class,memory and IO-space addresses, IRQ lines etc.
* Called at initialisation of the PCI subsystem and by CardBus services.
- * Returns 0 on success and negative if unknown type of device (not normal,
- * bridge or CardBus).
+ * Returns 0 on success, -ENOMEM if the device name could not be allocated,
+ * and -EIO if the device is of an unknown type (not normal, bridge or
+ * CardBus).
*/
int pci_setup_device(struct pci_dev *dev)
{
@@ -2052,9 +2053,13 @@ 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);

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2.43.0