Ido Schimmel 9b3bc7db75 mlxsw: core: Fix use-after-free when flashing firmware during init
When the switch driver (e.g., mlxsw_spectrum) determines it needs to
flash a new firmware version it resets the ASIC after the flashing
process. The bus driver (e.g., mlxsw_pci) then registers itself again
with mlxsw_core which means (among other things) that the device
registers itself again with the hwmon subsystem again.

Since the device was registered with the hwmon subsystem using
devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups(), then the old hwmon device
(registered before the flashing) was never unregistered and was
referencing stale data, resulting in a use-after free.

Fix by removing reliance on device managed APIs in mlxsw_hwmon_init().

Fixes: c86d62cc41 ("mlxsw: spectrum: Reset FW after flash")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Reported-by: Alexander Petrovskiy <alexpe@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Petrovskiy <alexpe@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-10-17 22:25:45 -07:00
2018-10-12 17:36:40 +02:00

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