linux-kernel - [PATCH] comedi: ni_atmio16d: Fix invalid clean-up after failed attach

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Message-ID: <20260128150011.5006-1-abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:00:10 +0000
From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>,
	H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@...ionengravers.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] comedi: ni_atmio16d: Fix invalid clean-up after failed attach

If the driver's COMEDI "attach" handler function (`atmio16d_attach()`)
returns an error, the COMEDI core will call the driver's "detach"
handler function (`atmio16d_detach()`) to clean up.  This calls
`reset_atmio16d()` unconditionally, but depending on where the error
occurred in the attach handler, the device may not have been
sufficiently initialized to call `reset_atmio16d()`.  It uses
`dev->iobase` as the I/O port base address and `dev->private` as the
pointer to the COMEDI device's private data structure.  `dev->iobase`
may still be set to its initial value of 0, which would result in
undesired writes to low I/O port addresses.  `dev->private` may still be
`NULL`, which would result in null pointer dereferences.

Fix `atmio16d_detach()` by checking that `dev->private` is valid
(non-null) before calling `reset_atmio16d()`.  This implies that
`dev->iobase` was set correctly since that is set up before
`dev->private`.

Fixes: 2323b276308a ("Staging: comedi: add ni_at_atmio16d driver")
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
---
 drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio16d.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio16d.c b/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio16d.c
index e5e7cc423c87..b057b3b3582e 100644
--- a/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio16d.c
+++ b/drivers/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio16d.c
@@ -698,7 +698,8 @@ static int atmio16d_attach(struct comedi_device *dev,

 static void atmio16d_detach(struct comedi_device *dev)
 {
-	reset_atmio16d(dev);
+	if (dev->private)
+		reset_atmio16d(dev);
 	comedi_legacy_detach(dev);
 }

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