i2c: core: fix NULL-deref on adapter registration failure

If adapter registration ever fails the release callback would trigger a
NULL-pointer dereference as the completion struct has not been
initialised.

Note that before the offending commit this would instead have resulted
in a minor memory leak of the adapter name.

Fixes: 3f8c4f5e9a ("i2c: core: fix reference leak in i2c_register_adapter()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joe Hattori <joe@pf.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
This commit is contained in:
Johan Hovold
2026-05-11 16:37:08 +02:00
committed by Wolfram Sang
parent 3c7e164344
commit 2295d2bb10

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@@ -1574,8 +1574,7 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
res = device_add(&adap->dev);
if (res) {
pr_err("adapter '%s': can't register device (%d)\n", adap->name, res);
put_device(&adap->dev);
goto err_remove_irq_domain;
goto err_put_adap;
}
adap->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&adap->dev), i2c_debugfs_root);
@@ -1608,10 +1607,12 @@ static int i2c_register_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
out_reg:
i2c_deregister_clients(adap);
debugfs_remove_recursive(adap->debugfs);
device_del(&adap->dev);
err_put_adap:
init_completion(&adap->dev_released);
device_unregister(&adap->dev);
put_device(&adap->dev);
wait_for_completion(&adap->dev_released);
err_remove_irq_domain:
i2c_host_notify_irq_teardown(adap);
out_list:
mutex_lock(&core_lock);