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Revert "hwmon: (ibmpex) fix use-after-free in high/low store"
This reverts commit 6946c72. 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: 6946c72 ("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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drivers/hwmon/ibmpex.c

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@@ -277,9 +277,6 @@ static ssize_t ibmpex_high_low_store(struct device *dev,
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{
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struct ibmpex_bmc_data *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
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if (!data)
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return -ENODEV;
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ibmpex_reset_high_low_data(data);
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return count;
@@ -511,9 +508,6 @@ static void ibmpex_bmc_delete(struct ibmpex_bmc_data *data)
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{
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int i, j;
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hwmon_device_unregister(data->hwmon_dev);
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dev_set_drvdata(data->bmc_device, NULL);
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device_remove_file(data->bmc_device,
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&sensor_dev_attr_reset_high_low.dev_attr);
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device_remove_file(data->bmc_device, &dev_attr_name.attr);
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}
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list_del(&data->list);
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dev_set_drvdata(data->bmc_device, NULL);
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hwmon_device_unregister(data->hwmon_dev);
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ipmi_destroy_user(data->user);
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kfree(data->sensors);
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kfree(data);

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