From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Hardware Monitoring <linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Subject: [PATCH] hwmon: Fix potential UAF in pec_store
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:08:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260821050808.667204-1-linux@roeck-us.net> (raw)
Sashiko reports:
In pec_store(), a guard(mutex)(&hwdev->lock) is taken. If the chip write
operation returns an error other than -EOPNOTSUPP, the code jumps to the
put label, which calls put_device(hdev). If this drops the final reference,
the device is freed. When the function then returns, the guard cleanup
function runs and attempts to unlock the freed mutex.
Use scoped_guard() instead of guard() to avoid the problem.
Fixes: 3ad2a7b9b15d5 ("hwmon: Serialize accesses in hwmon core")
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
---
drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c | 21 ++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
index 41755910a25a..3e65fc6d25eb 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
@@ -371,18 +371,17 @@ static ssize_t pec_store(struct device *dev, const struct device_attribute *deva
* handling is not required.
*/
hwdev = to_hwmon_device(hdev);
- guard(mutex)(&hwdev->lock);
- if (hwdev->chip->ops->write) {
- err = hwdev->chip->ops->write(hdev, hwmon_chip, hwmon_chip_pec, 0, val);
- if (err && err != -EOPNOTSUPP)
- goto put;
+ scoped_guard(mutex, &hwdev->lock) {
+ if (hwdev->chip->ops->write) {
+ err = hwdev->chip->ops->write(hdev, hwmon_chip, hwmon_chip_pec, 0, val);
+ if (err && err != -EOPNOTSUPP)
+ goto put;
+ }
+ if (!val)
+ client->flags &= ~I2C_CLIENT_PEC;
+ else
+ client->flags |= I2C_CLIENT_PEC;
}
-
- if (!val)
- client->flags &= ~I2C_CLIENT_PEC;
- else
- client->flags |= I2C_CLIENT_PEC;
-
err = count;
put:
put_device(hdev);
--
2.45.2
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