Re: [PATCH -next] thermal/drivers/thermal_hwmon: Fix a kernel NULL pointer dereference

Daniel Lezcano
2023-03-29T16:03:18Z

On 29/03/2023 11:00, Zhang Rui wrote:
> When the hwmon device node of a thermal zone device is not found,
> using hwmon->device causes a kernel NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Reported-by: Preble Adam C <adam.c.preble@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>

> ---
> Fixes: dec07d399cc8 ("thermal: Don't use 'device' internal thermal zone structure field")
> dec07d399cc8 is a commit in the linux-next branch of linux-pm repo.
> I'm not sure if the Fix tag applies to such commit or not.
> ---
> drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c
> index c59db17dddd6..261743f461be 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c
> @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ void thermal_remove_hwmon_sysfs(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
> hwmon = thermal_hwmon_lookup_by_type(tz);
> if (unlikely(!hwmon)) {
> /* Should never happen... */
> - dev_dbg(hwmon->device, "hwmon device lookup failed!\n");
> + dev_dbg(&tz->device, "hwmon device lookup failed!\n");
> return;
> }
>

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