From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6D86305687; Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:51:11 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1790175072; cv=none; b=syYH7sfACKLQuErKIve75/BDJWQplbD3rNax5xGd88aG21tvJLmbGeslqM+sbsASbmNU07jIk829f2BzF+jGdjjOamazsAeccykObji8TdesdrsRDTEvxgdT0qYflXv33gluNM64Hwu4BHZ3i9mshfjhBd2/j3vVWXBn37PrbIQ= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1790175072; c=relaxed/simple; bh=83qu43ftqH/jlqp7nHUwcyHjGYzhrW7Shh8Y+mi0uKE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=C064OCziScgchbUlJ9BWrGcsdqYBfWk4HZhNiZPJyUiMra7jp/pfpAa5fOeBpynNFTgrinRih4Yg5ZdeG0fgvewP4OUstgKGEzlek8OiMhmusYNwmIq+BwaNsyEt1yDYmUZkIZMluEHau+8GKuQA0drWAMQxKoqoysi9ZTG8TvM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=BYBhcUsz; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="BYBhcUsz" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2BA861F000FF; Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:51:11 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1790175071; bh=M0k0u3uLezDlVr9oqovJxoFMJnlWURLNn30PkcpBLEQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References; b=BYBhcUszV7q8C7P/tkJHSVwAwRSmmLagyo6/ny9WzszAsFw3rxRgbLZJrlsGjmtMq 5IpE0aBTYjLHSL9asNeC7K6xp5mtwKaFDX8HFKwVH/Rc9+/G3JkQ+S5vUwL3vewGhT mZz3VfKULQKu/tOeczOM583vbZ7Z7CwQ5O9hzMfM= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, Guangshuo Li , Guenter Roeck Subject: [PATCH 6.18 312/398] hwmon: (w83793) release probe data through kref Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:06:26 +0200 Message-ID: <20260923140651.512393166@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.55.0 In-Reply-To: <20260923140643.441954610@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20260923140643.441954610@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.69 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 6.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Guangshuo Li commit c702a5f18b780e477eccbbab558e590e9673e4cb upstream. w83793_probe() initializes data->kref to manage the lifetime of the driver data. The normal remove path drops the driver-owned reference with kref_put(), while watchdog users take and release additional references through the same kref. However, the probe error path still frees data directly with kfree(). This bypasses the kref-managed lifetime and discards the initial reference without a matching kref_put(), leaving the reference accounting unbalanced. Drop the probe-owned reference with kref_put() instead and let w83793_release_resources() perform the final free, matching the normal remove path. This issue was found by manual code inspection. Fixes: 5852f9609d21 ("hwmon: (w83793) Add watchdog functionality") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260914073638.1662500-1-lgs201920130244@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/hwmon/w83793.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/hwmon/w83793.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/w83793.c @@ -1928,7 +1928,9 @@ exit_remove: for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(w83793_temp); i++) device_remove_file(dev, &w83793_temp[i].dev_attr); free_mem: - kfree(data); + mutex_lock(&watchdog_data_mutex); + kref_put(&data->kref, w83793_release_resources); + mutex_unlock(&watchdog_data_mutex); exit: return err; }