[hwmon PATCH v2 7/8] hwmon: (adt7470) Fix divide-by-zero TOCTOU crash in fan speed read

From: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca

Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 20:23:59 EST


If the fan data becomes 0 between the FAN_DATA_VALID() check and the
FAN_PERIOD_TO_RPM() conversion, it will result in a divide-by-zero crash
due to a race with a concurrent update of the cached fan value.

Fix a TOCTOU issue by reading fan data once.

Reported-by: sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260727034929.E29B71F000E9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Fixes: fc958a61ff6d ("hwmon: (adt7470) Convert to devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info API")
Signed-off-by: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c | 23 ++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c b/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
index 1fbca4869b7b..772d2a409bb5 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/adt7470.c
@@ -660,36 +660,33 @@ static ssize_t alarm_mask_store(struct device *dev,
static int adt7470_fan_read(struct device *dev, u32 attr, int channel, long *val)
{
struct adt7470_data *data = adt7470_update_device(dev);
+ u16 fan_data;

if (IS_ERR(data))
return PTR_ERR(data);

switch (attr) {
case hwmon_fan_input:
- if (FAN_DATA_VALID(data->fan[channel]))
- *val = FAN_PERIOD_TO_RPM(data->fan[channel]);
- else
- *val = 0;
+ fan_data = READ_ONCE(data->fan[channel]);
break;
case hwmon_fan_min:
- if (FAN_DATA_VALID(data->fan_min[channel]))
- *val = FAN_PERIOD_TO_RPM(data->fan_min[channel]);
- else
- *val = 0;
+ fan_data = READ_ONCE(data->fan_min[channel]);
break;
case hwmon_fan_max:
- if (FAN_DATA_VALID(data->fan_max[channel]))
- *val = FAN_PERIOD_TO_RPM(data->fan_max[channel]);
- else
- *val = 0;
+ fan_data = READ_ONCE(data->fan_max[channel]);
break;
case hwmon_fan_alarm:
*val = !!(data->alarm & FAN_ALARM_BIT(channel));
- break;
+ return 0;
default:
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}

+ if (FAN_DATA_VALID(fan_data))
+ *val = FAN_PERIOD_TO_RPM(fan_data);
+ else
+ *val = 0;
+
return 0;
}


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2.55.0