[PATCH] HID: hid-sensor-custom: Fix sysfs group leak on failure
From: Haoxiang Li
Date: Mon Jun 22 2026 - 22:20:36 EST
hid_sensor_custom_add_attributes() creates one sysfs group for each
custom sensor field. If sysfs_create_group() fails after some groups
have already been created, the function currently breaks out of the
loop and returns the error directly.
Fix this by adding a local unwind path when sysfs_create_group() fails.
The unwind path removes all sysfs groups that were successfully created
before the failure and frees sensor_inst->fields.
Fixes: 4a7de0519df5 ("HID: sensor: Custom and Generic sensor support")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <haoxiang_li2024@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c b/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c
index afffea894021..cd676516e6b0 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-sensor-custom.c
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ static int hid_sensor_custom_add_attributes(struct hid_sensor_custom
&sensor_inst->fields[i].
hid_custom_attribute_group);
if (ret)
- break;
+ goto err_remove_groups;
/* For power or report field store indexes */
if (sensor_inst->fields[i].attribute.attrib_id ==
@@ -621,6 +621,13 @@ static int hid_sensor_custom_add_attributes(struct hid_sensor_custom
}
return ret;
+
+err_remove_groups:
+ while (--i >= 0)
+ sysfs_remove_group(&sensor_inst->pdev->dev.kobj,
+ &sensor_inst->fields[i].hid_custom_attribute_group);
+ kfree(sensor_inst->fields);
+ return ret;
}
static void hid_sensor_custom_remove_attributes(struct hid_sensor_custom *
--
2.25.1