Re: [PATCH v2 -next] thermal/drivers/thermal_hwmon: Fix a kernel NULL pointer dereference

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 2:26 PM Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When the hwmon device node of a thermal zone device is not found,
> using hwmon->device causes a kernel NULL pointer dereference.
>
> Skip removing hwmon device for thermal zones without hwmon device, and
> fix the kernel NULL pointer dereference when hwmon device is not found.
>
> Fixes: dec07d399cc8 ("thermal: Don't use 'device' internal thermal zone structure field")
> Reported-by: Preble Adam C <adam.c.preble@xxxxxxxxx>

Do you have a link to the bug report?  I'm wondering where exactly it triggers.

> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1 -> v2
>    Add check for devices without hwmon device.
>    Use pr_debug instead of dev_dbg.
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c
> index c59db17dddd6..1cdee2ee8d4d 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c
> @@ -226,10 +226,12 @@ void thermal_remove_hwmon_sysfs(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
>         struct thermal_hwmon_device *hwmon;
>         struct thermal_hwmon_temp *temp;
>
> +       if (tz->tzp && tz->tzp->no_hwmon)
> +               return;
> +
>         hwmon = thermal_hwmon_lookup_by_type(tz);
>         if (unlikely(!hwmon)) {
> -               /* Should never happen... */
> -               dev_dbg(hwmon->device, "hwmon device lookup failed!\n");
> +               pr_debug("hwmon device lookup failed!\n");
>                 return;
>         }
>
> --