[PATCH] usb: typec: ucsi: fix teardown races with late notifications
From: Iván Ezequiel Rodriguez
Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 23:04:42 EST
ucsi_acpi_remove() freed the UCSI instance before removing the ACPI
notify handler. A concurrent notify could call into ucsi_acpi_notify()
and use ua->ucsi after it was destroyed.
Clear ucsi->ntfy before disabling PPM notifications and NULL the
connector array after free so ucsi_connector_change() cannot schedule
work on a dangling connector while a backend still delivers events.
Tested: built drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ with CONFIG_TYPEC_UCSI=m and
CONFIG_UCSI_ACPI=m via docker kbuild; checkpatch clean.
Signed-off-by: Iván Ezequiel Rodriguez <ivanrwcm25@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c | 11 +++++++++++
drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_acpi.c | 11 ++++++++---
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c b/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c
index bef3f9b71d71..3395614764cf 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c
@@ -2369,6 +2369,15 @@ void ucsi_unregister(struct ucsi *ucsi)
ucsi_debugfs_unregister(ucsi);
+ /*
+ * Stop accepting connector-change events before the PPM disable
+ * command and before freeing connectors. Backends may still deliver
+ * a late notification (e.g. ACPI) until their own handler is removed;
+ * with ntfy cleared, ucsi_connector_change() returns early instead of
+ * scheduling work on a connector that is about to be freed.
+ */
+ ucsi->ntfy = 0;
+
/* Disable notifications */
ucsi->ops->async_control(ucsi, cmd);
@@ -2382,6 +2391,8 @@ void ucsi_unregister(struct ucsi *ucsi)
}
kfree(ucsi->connector);
+ ucsi->connector = NULL;
+ memset(&ucsi->cap, 0, sizeof(ucsi->cap));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ucsi_unregister);
diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_acpi.c b/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_acpi.c
index 18286d3e9cc5..5fc485121dbb 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_acpi.c
@@ -256,11 +256,16 @@ static void ucsi_acpi_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct ucsi_acpi *ua = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
- ucsi_unregister(ua->ucsi);
- ucsi_destroy(ua->ucsi);
-
+ /*
+ * Drop the ACPI notify handler before tearing down the UCSI instance.
+ * Otherwise a concurrent notify can race into ucsi_acpi_notify() and
+ * use ua->ucsi after it has been freed.
+ */
acpi_remove_notify_handler(ACPI_HANDLE(&pdev->dev), ACPI_DEVICE_NOTIFY,
ucsi_acpi_notify);
+
+ ucsi_unregister(ua->ucsi);
+ ucsi_destroy(ua->ucsi);
}
static int ucsi_acpi_suspend(struct device *dev)
--
2.43.0