Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: mt6370: Fix potential UAF issue

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Dec 01 2022 - 06:43:35 EST


On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 04:37:42PM +0800, cy_huang wrote:

> The original code uses i2c dev as the parent in order to reuse
> the 'regulator_of_get_init_data'. But this will cause regulation
> constraint devres attached to i2c dev, not the mfd cell platform
> device.

This is a general issue which will affect a lot of MFDs, we would be
better to fix this by changing the API to provide a device to be used
for the devres allocations separately to the one used for looking up the
DT.

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