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authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>2026-02-07 08:12:25 -0800
committerGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>2026-02-10 07:08:55 -0800
commit8bde3e395a85017f12af2b0ba5c3684f5af9c006 (patch)
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parent007be4327e443d79c9dd9e56dc16c36f6395d208 (diff)
Revert "hwmon: (ibmpex) fix use-after-free in high/low store"
This reverts commit 6946c726c3f4c36f0f049e6f97e88c510b15f65d. Jean Delvare points out that the patch does not completely fix the reported problem, that it in fact introduces a (new) race condition, and that it may actually not be needed in the first place. Various AI reviews agree. Specific and relevant AI feedback: " This reordering sets the driver data to NULL before removing the sensor attributes in the loop below. ibmpex_show_sensor() retrieves this driver data via dev_get_drvdata() but does not check if it is NULL before dereferencing it to access data->sensors[]. If a userspace process reads a sensor file (like temp1_input) while this delete function is running, could it race with the dev_set_drvdata(..., NULL) call here and crash in ibmpex_show_sensor()? Would it be safer to keep the original order where device_remove_file() is called before clearing the driver data? device_remove_file() should wait for any active sysfs callbacks to complete, which might already prevent the use-after-free this patch intends to fix. " Revert the offending patch. If it can be shown that the originally reported alleged race condition does indeed exist, it can always be re-introduced with a complete fix. Reported-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hwmon/20260121095342.73e723cb@endymion/ Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Cc: Junrui Luo <moonafterrain@outlook.com> Fixes: 6946c726c3f4 ("hwmon: (ibmpex) fix use-after-free in high/low store") Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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