[PATCH] mmc: mxcmmc: cancel data work and watchdog on remove

From: Fan Wu

Date: Thu Aug 06 2026 - 23:28:31 EST


mxcmci_remove() frees the host through the devm tail, but neither it nor
mmc_remove_host() drains the driver's own asynchronous state.
host->watchdog, a 10 s timer armed on the DMA path in mxcmci_setup_data(),
is deleted only by the DMA- and IRQ-complete paths, which the remove path
does not explicitly drain; it can therefore fire after the host is freed
and dereference it in mxcmci_watchdog(). host->datawork, armed from the
IRQ handler on the PIO path, is not cancelled by the remove path either.

Free the devm-registered IRQ, then cancel datawork and delete the watchdog
in mxcmci_remove(), before dma_release_channel(). Freeing the IRQ first
keeps a trailing handler from re-arming datawork between the cancel and
the host free. Both callbacks are non-self-rearming.

This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.

Fixes: f6ad0a481342 ("mmc: mxcmmc: fix bug that may block a data transfer forever")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6
Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <fanwu01@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
index c405cfb8b269..097498a3f8ff 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/mxcmmc.c
@@ -1173,6 +1173,10 @@ static void mxcmci_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)

mmc_remove_host(mmc);

+ devm_free_irq(&pdev->dev, platform_get_irq(pdev, 0), host);
+ cancel_work_sync(&host->datawork);
+ timer_delete_sync(&host->watchdog);
+
if (host->pdata && host->pdata->exit)
host->pdata->exit(&pdev->dev, mmc);

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2.34.1