6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Zijun Hu zijun.hu@oss.qualcomm.com
[ Upstream commit 52e2bb5ff089d65e2c7d982fe2826dc88e473d50 ]
For miscdevice who wants dynamic minor, it may fail to be registered again without reinitialization after being de-registered, which is illustrated by kunit test case miscdev_test_dynamic_reentry() newly added.
There is a real case found by cascardo when a part of minor range were contained by range [0, 255):
1) wmi/dell-smbios registered minor 122, and acpi_thermal_rel registered minor 123 2) unbind "int3400 thermal" driver from its device, this will de-register acpi_thermal_rel 3) rmmod then insmod dell_smbios again, now wmi/dell-smbios is using minor 123 4) bind the device to "int3400 thermal" driver again, acpi_thermal_rel fails to register.
Some drivers may reuse the miscdevice structure after they are deregistered If the intention is to allocate a dynamic minor, if the minor number is not reset to MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR before calling misc_register(), it will try to register a previously dynamically allocated minor number, which may have been registered by a different driver.
One such case is the acpi_thermal_rel misc device, registered by the int3400 thermal driver. If the device is unbound from the driver and later bound, if there was another dynamic misc device registered in between, it would fail to register the acpi_thermal_rel misc device. Other drivers behave similarly.
Actually, this kind of issue is prone to happen if APIs misc_register()/misc_deregister() are invoked by driver's probe()/remove() separately.
Instead of fixing all the drivers, just reset the minor member to MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR in misc_deregister() in case it was a dynamically allocated minor number, as error handling of misc_register() does.
Cc: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo cascardo@igalia.com Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu zijun.hu@oss.qualcomm.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250714-rfc_miscdev-v6-5-2ed949665bde@oss.qualcom... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/char/misc.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c index 30178e20d962d..9ee78c76e8663 100644 --- a/drivers/char/misc.c +++ b/drivers/char/misc.c @@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ void misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc) list_del(&misc->list); device_destroy(&misc_class, MKDEV(MISC_MAJOR, misc->minor)); misc_minor_free(misc->minor); + if (misc->minor > MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR) + misc->minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR; mutex_unlock(&misc_mtx); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(misc_deregister);