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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] usb: typec: ucsi: glink: fix use-after-free of ucsi on remove" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.6.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 63b269ec537dc0fd26d0bd64872c26860d108c9d
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026100540-barterer-those-a743@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 63b269ec537dc0fd26d0bd64872c26860d108c9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fan Wu <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 06:02:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] usb: typec: ucsi: glink: fix use-after-free of ucsi on remove

The pmic_glink client is released by the devres cleanup, which runs after pmic_glink_ucsi_remove() has returned, so its notification callbacks can queue work until then. Work that runs after ucsi_unregister() has been called touches freed state: it dereferences the connector array that ucsi_unregister() freed, or registers and unregisters the instance a second time.

Disable both work items with disable_work_sync() before unregistering, and unregister only if the instance is still registered.

This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.

drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi_glink.c +13 -2
index 12e07b9fe622..1db0c88d817e 100644
@@ -362,6 +362,10 @@ static void pmic_glink_ucsi_destroy(void *data)
 {
 	struct pmic_glink_ucsi *ucsi = data;
 
+	/* Drain the work items before ucsi_destroy() frees the ucsi instance */
+	cancel_work_sync(&ucsi->notify_work);
+	cancel_work_sync(&ucsi->register_work);
+
 	/* Protect to make sure we're not in a middle of a transaction from a glink callback */
 	mutex_lock(&ucsi->lock);
 	ucsi_destroy(ucsi->ucsi);
@@ -467,8 +471,15 @@ static void pmic_glink_ucsi_remove(struct auxiliary_device *adev)
 {
 	struct pmic_glink_ucsi *ucsi = dev_get_drvdata(&adev->dev);
 
-	/* Unregister first to stop having read & writes */
-	ucsi_unregister(ucsi->ucsi);
+	/* Callbacks can queue work until devres releases the client */
+	disable_work_sync(&ucsi->notify_work);
+	disable_work_sync(&ucsi->register_work);
+
+	/* register_work may have unregistered the instance already */
+	if (ucsi->ucsi_registered) {
+		ucsi->ucsi_registered = false;
+		ucsi_unregister(ucsi->ucsi);
+	}
 }
 
 static const struct auxiliary_device_id pmic_glink_ucsi_id_table[] = {