[PATCH] can: peak_pci: fix PCIeC cleanup on probe failure

From: Guangshuo Li

Date: Tue Sep 15 2026 - 13:40:47 EST


peak_pci_probe() initializes the PCIeC resources before registering the
SJA1000 network device.

On the probe error path, the registered channels are freed with
free_sja1000dev() before peak_pciec_remove() is called. Since chan is
part of the netdev private data, accessing chan->pciec_card after
free_sja1000dev() results in a use-after-free.

There is also a similar cleanup issue when peak_pciec_probe() succeeds
for the first channel but register_sja1000dev() subsequently fails. In
that case, the netdev is freed without releasing the PCIeC resources.

Clean up the PCIeC resources before freeing the first channel, matching
the ordering used by peak_pci_remove(), and also release them when
registration of the first channel fails.

This issue was found by manual code inspection.

Fixes: e6d9c80b7ca1 ("can: peak_pci: add support of some new PEAK-System PCI cards")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/can/sja1000/peak_pci.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/sja1000/peak_pci.c b/drivers/net/can/sja1000/peak_pci.c
index 69c61ccf621d..28b94e642170 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/sja1000/peak_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/sja1000/peak_pci.c
@@ -697,6 +697,8 @@ static int peak_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
return 0;

failure_free_dev:
+if (!chan->prev_dev && chan->pciec_card)
+ peak_pciec_remove(chan->pciec_card);
pci_set_drvdata(pdev, chan->prev_dev);
free_sja1000dev(dev);

@@ -704,20 +706,18 @@ static int peak_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
/* Disable interrupts */
writew(0x0, cfg_base + PITA_ICR + 2);

- chan = NULL;
for (dev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev); dev; dev = prev_dev) {
priv = netdev_priv(dev);
chan = priv->priv;
prev_dev = chan->prev_dev;

+ /* do that only for first channel */
+ if (!prev_dev && chan->pciec_card)
+ peak_pciec_remove(chan->pciec_card);
unregister_sja1000dev(dev);
free_sja1000dev(dev);
}

- /* free any PCIeC resources too */
- if (chan && chan->pciec_card)
- peak_pciec_remove(chan->pciec_card);
-
pci_iounmap(pdev, reg_base);

failure_unmap_cfg_base:
--
2.43.0