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Currently, misc_deregister() uses list_del() to remove the device from the list. After list_del(), the list pointers are set to LIST_POISON1 and LIST_POISON2, which may help catch use-after-free bugs, but does not reset the list head. If misc_deregister() is called more than once on the same device, list_empty() will not return true, and list_del() may be called again, leading to undefined behavior. Replace list_del() with list_del_init() to reinitialize the list head after deletion. This makes the code more robust against double deregistration and allows safe usage of list_empty() on the miscdevice after deregistration. [ Note, this seems to keep broken out-of-tree drivers from doing foolish things. While this does not matter for any in-kernel drivers, external drivers could use a bit of help to show them they shouldn't be doing stuff like re-registering misc devices - gregkh ] Signed-off-by: Xion Wang <xion.wang@mediatek.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250904063714.28925-2-xion.wang@mediatek.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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