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power: supply: pm8916_bms_vm: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed()

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Using the `devm_` variant for requesting IRQ _before_ the `devm_`
variant for allocating/registering the `power_supply` handle, means that
the `power_supply` handle will be deallocated/unregistered _before_ the
interrupt handler (since `devm_` naturally deallocates in reverse
allocation order). This means that during removal, there is a race
condition where an interrupt can fire just _after_ the `power_supply`
handle has been freed, *but* just _before_ the corresponding
unregistration of the IRQ handler has run.

This will lead to the IRQ handler calling `power_supply_changed()` with
a freed `power_supply` handle. Which usually crashes the system or
otherwise silently corrupts the memory...

Note that there is a similar situation which can also happen during
`probe()`; the possibility of an interrupt firing _before_ registering
the `power_supply` handle. This would then lead to the nasty situation
of using the `power_supply` handle *uninitialized* in
`power_supply_changed()`.

Fix this racy use-after-free by making sure the IRQ is requested _after_
the registration of the `power_supply` handle.

Fixes: 098bce1838 ("power: supply: Add pm8916 VM-BMS support")
Signed-off-by: Waqar Hameed <waqar.hameed@axis.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikita Travkin <nikita@trvn.ru>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2749c09ff81fcac87ae48147e216135450d8c067.1766268280.git.waqar.hameed@axis.com
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Waqar Hameed 2025-12-20 23:36:01 +01:00 • committed by Sasha Levin
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