power_supply: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference on early uevent

Don't call the power_supply_changed() from power_supply_register() when
parent is still probing because it may lead to accessing parent too
early.

In bq27x00_battery this caused NULL pointer exception because uevent of
power_supply_changed called back the the get_property() method provided
by the driver. The get_property() method accessed pointer which should
be returned by power_supply_register().

Starting from bq27x00_battery_probe():
  di->bat = power_supply_register()
    power_supply_changed()
      kobject_uevent()
        power_supply_uevent()
          power_supply_show_property()
            power_supply_get_property()
              bq27x00_battery_get_property()
                dereference of di->bat which is NULL here

The dereference of di->bat (value returned by power_supply_register())
is the currently visible problem. However calling back the methods
provided by driver before ending the probe may lead to accessing other
driver-related data which is not yet initialized.

The call to power_supply_changed() is postponed till probing ends -
mutex of parent device is released.

Reported-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
Fixes: 297d716f6260 ("power_supply: Change ownership from driver to core")
Tested-By: Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/power_supply.h b/include/linux/power_supply.h
index 75a1dd8dc56e..a80f1fd01ddb 100644
--- a/include/linux/power_supply.h
+++ b/include/linux/power_supply.h
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ struct power_supply {
 	/* private */
 	struct device dev;
 	struct work_struct changed_work;
+	struct delayed_work deferred_register_work;
 	spinlock_t changed_lock;
 	bool changed;
 	atomic_t use_cnt;