[PATCH v3 1/2] HID: sensor: custom: Fix use-after-free in enable_sensor
From: Haoxiang Li <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-07 07:16:14
Also in:
linux-iio, lkml, stable
Subsystem:
hid core layer, hid sensor hub drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Jiri Kosina, Benjamin Tissoires, Jonathan Cameron, Srinivas Pandruvada, Linus Torvalds
enable_sensor_store() can call set_power_report_state(), which dereferences sensor_inst->power_state and sensor_inst->report_state. These pointers refer to entries in sensor_inst->fields. Create the field attributes before exposing the enable_sensor sysfs attribute, so enable_sensor cannot be accessed before the state it depends on has been initialized. On remove, delete enable_sensor before freeing the field attributes, so a concurrent sysfs write cannot dereference freed memory through power_state or report_state. Reported-by: Sashiko AI Review <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260623021950.1736413-1-haoxiang_li2024@163.com?part=1 Fixes: 4a7de0519df5 ("HID: sensor: Custom and Generic sensor support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <redacted> --- drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c b/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c
index afffea894021..6b0da2e0e1c9 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c@@ -1005,26 +1005,26 @@ static int hid_sensor_custom_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return ret; } - ret = sysfs_create_group(&sensor_inst->pdev->dev.kobj, - &enable_sensor_attr_group); + ret = hid_sensor_custom_add_attributes(sensor_inst); if (ret) goto err_remove_callback; - ret = hid_sensor_custom_add_attributes(sensor_inst); + ret = sysfs_create_group(&sensor_inst->pdev->dev.kobj, + &enable_sensor_attr_group); if (ret) - goto err_remove_group; + goto err_remove_attributes; ret = hid_sensor_custom_dev_if_add(sensor_inst); if (ret) - goto err_remove_attributes; + goto err_remove_group; return 0; -err_remove_attributes: - hid_sensor_custom_remove_attributes(sensor_inst); err_remove_group: sysfs_remove_group(&sensor_inst->pdev->dev.kobj, &enable_sensor_attr_group); +err_remove_attributes: + hid_sensor_custom_remove_attributes(sensor_inst); err_remove_callback: sensor_hub_remove_callback(hsdev, hsdev->usage);
@@ -1042,9 +1042,10 @@ static void hid_sensor_custom_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) } hid_sensor_custom_dev_if_remove(sensor_inst); - hid_sensor_custom_remove_attributes(sensor_inst); + /* Remove enable_sensor first as it uses fields via power_state/report_state. */ sysfs_remove_group(&sensor_inst->pdev->dev.kobj, &enable_sensor_attr_group); + hid_sensor_custom_remove_attributes(sensor_inst); sensor_hub_remove_callback(hsdev, hsdev->usage); }
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