[PATCH] Input: raydium_i2c_ts - propagate device info query errors from raydium_i2c_initialize()
From: Muhammad Bilal <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-28 13:51:38
Also in:
lkml, stable
Subsystem:
input (keyboard, mouse, joystick, touchscreen) drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Dmitry Torokhov, Linus Torvalds
raydium_i2c_initialize() calls raydium_i2c_query_ts_info() (or raydium_i2c_query_ts_bootloader_info() in bootloader mode) but never checks or returns its result. raydium_i2c_probe() treats a zero return from raydium_i2c_initialize() as full success, then unconditionally allocates ts->report_data with size ts->pkg_size and registers the IRQ handler. If raydium_i2c_query_ts_info() fails on every one of its own retries (e.g. because the device is still completing power-up when probe runs), ts->pkg_size and ts->report_size are left at their devm_kzalloc()'d default of 0, and ts->report_data is never meaningfully allocated: devm_kmalloc(dev, 0, GFP_KERNEL) returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR, a non-NULL sentinel (include/linux/slab.h) that must never be dereferenced, which passes the existing 'if (!ts->report_data)' check. RAYDIUM_TS_MAIN is also 0, the same value ts->boot_mode has from devm_kzalloc() before raydium_i2c_check_fw_status() ever confirms a mode, so a spurious/garbage first read that raydium_i2c_check_fw_status() does not recognize as either ack byte leaves boot_mode looking like an already-confirmed RAYDIUM_TS_MAIN without it ever being set. With both conditions met, probe() completes 'successfully' with a live IRQ, ts->boot_mode == RAYDIUM_TS_MAIN, and ts->report_data pointing at a zero-size allocation. The next touch fires raydium_i2c_irq(), which passes the boot_mode check and dereferences ts->report_data at offset ts->report_size, both derived from that never-actually-confirmed state, producing a NULL/invalid pointer dereference in interrupt context: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference RIP: raydium_i2c_irq+0x5b/0x1d0 [raydium_i2c_ts] On kernels with CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS=y (e.g. linux-hardened) this is a full system panic on the first touch; on a default kernel it only kills the IRQ thread, but the touchscreen stops working and a subsequent reboot can hang cleaning up the recursive fault. Have raydium_i2c_initialize() return the result of the info query in both the bootloader and main-firmware branches, so a failure there aborts raydium_i2c_probe() before report_data or the IRQ are ever set up, instead of leaving them in this half-initialized state. Reported-by: Herlangga Maulani <redacted> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221777 Fixes: 48a2b783483b ("Input: add Raydium I2C touchscreen driver") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Muhammad Bilal <redacted> --- drivers/input/touchscreen/raydium_i2c_ts.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/input/touchscreen/raydium_i2c_ts.c b/drivers/input/touchscreen/raydium_i2c_ts.c
index 0256055abcef..a0b23772f4c0 100644
--- a/drivers/input/touchscreen/raydium_i2c_ts.c
+++ b/drivers/input/touchscreen/raydium_i2c_ts.c@@ -426,9 +426,9 @@ static int raydium_i2c_initialize(struct raydium_data *ts) ts->boot_mode = RAYDIUM_TS_BLDR; if (ts->boot_mode == RAYDIUM_TS_BLDR) - raydium_i2c_query_ts_bootloader_info(ts); + error = raydium_i2c_query_ts_bootloader_info(ts); else - raydium_i2c_query_ts_info(ts); + error = raydium_i2c_query_ts_info(ts); return error; }
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2.55.0