From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>

If the memory allocation in gpiolib_seq_start() fails, the s->private
field remains uninitialized and is later dereferenced without checking
in gpiolib_seq_stop(). Initialize s->private to NULL before calling
kzalloc() and check it before dereferencing it.

Fixes: e348544f7994 ("gpio: protect the list of GPIO devices with SRCU")
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
---
Changes in v2:
- Initialize priv right before checking it for NULL in
  gpiolib_seq_stop()

 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index a81981336b36d..3659acc600d96 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -5303,6 +5303,8 @@ static void *gpiolib_seq_start(struct seq_file *s, loff_t *pos)
 	struct gpio_device *gdev;
 	loff_t index = *pos;
 
+	s->private = NULL;
+
 	priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!priv)
 		return NULL;
@@ -5336,7 +5338,11 @@ static void *gpiolib_seq_next(struct seq_file *s, void *v, loff_t *pos)
 
 static void gpiolib_seq_stop(struct seq_file *s, void *v)
 {
-	struct gpiolib_seq_priv *priv = s->private;
+	struct gpiolib_seq_priv *priv;
+
+	priv = s->private;
+	if (!priv)
+		return;
 
 	srcu_read_unlock(&gpio_devices_srcu, priv->idx);
 	kfree(priv);
-- 
2.51.0

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>


On Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:11:32 +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> If the memory allocation in gpiolib_seq_start() fails, the s->private
> field remains uninitialized and is later dereferenced without checking
> in gpiolib_seq_stop(). Initialize s->private to NULL before calling
> kzalloc() and check it before dereferencing it.
> 
> 

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] gpiolib: fix invalid pointer access in debugfs
      https://git.kernel.org/brgl/linux/c/2f6115ad8864cf3f48598f26c74c7c8e5c391919

Best regards,
-- 
Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>

On Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 03:11:32PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

> If the memory allocation in gpiolib_seq_start() fails, the s->private
> field remains uninitialized and is later dereferenced without checking
> in gpiolib_seq_stop(). Initialize s->private to NULL before calling
> kzalloc() and check it before dereferencing it.

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko