patch "iio: buffer: hw-consumer: fix use-after-free in error path" added to char-misc-linus

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    iio: buffer: hw-consumer: fix use-after-free in error path

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.


From 6f5ed4f2c7c83f33344e0ba179f72a12e5dad4a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Gu <ustc.gu@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:29:06 +0800
Subject: iio: buffer: hw-consumer: fix use-after-free in error path
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In the err_put_buffers cleanup path of iio_hw_consumer_alloc(), the code
was using list_for_each_entry() to iterate through buffers while calling
iio_buffer_put() which can free the current buffer if refcount drops to 0.
The list_for_each_entry() loop macro then evaluates buf->head.next to
continue iteration, accessing the freed buffer.

Fix this by using list_for_each_entry_safe().

Fixes: 48b66f8f936f ("iio: Add hardware consumer buffer support")
Reported-by: sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260427-iio_buf-v1-1-2bbdac844647%40gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Felix Gu <ustc.gu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nuno Sá <nuno.sa@analog.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxwell Doose <m32285159@gmail.com>
Cc: <Stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-hw-consumer.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-hw-consumer.c b/drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-hw-consumer.c
index 24d7df603760..700528c9a0a4 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-hw-consumer.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-hw-consumer.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static struct hw_consumer_buffer *iio_hw_consumer_get_buffer(
  */
 struct iio_hw_consumer *iio_hw_consumer_alloc(struct device *dev)
 {
-	struct hw_consumer_buffer *buf;
+	struct hw_consumer_buffer *buf, *tmp;
 	struct iio_hw_consumer *hwc;
 	struct iio_channel *chan;
 	int ret;
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ struct iio_hw_consumer *iio_hw_consumer_alloc(struct device *dev)
 	return hwc;
 
 err_put_buffers:
-	list_for_each_entry(buf, &hwc->buffers, head)
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(buf, tmp, &hwc->buffers, head)
 		iio_buffer_put(&buf->buffer);
 	iio_channel_release_all(hwc->channels);
 err_free_hwc:
-- 
2.54.0