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  - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/i915/hwmon: Get rid of devm When     both hwmon and hwmon drvdata (on which hwmon depends) are device managed resources, the expectation, on     device unbind, is that hwmon will be released before drvdata. However, in i915 there are two separate code     paths, which both release either drvdata or hwmon and either can be released before the other. These code     paths (for device unbind) are as follows (see also the bug referenced below): Call Trace:
    release_nodes+0x11/0x70 devres_release_group+0xb2/0x110 component_unbind_all+0x8d/0xa0     component_del+0xa5/0x140 intel_pxp_tee_component_fini+0x29/0x40 [i915] intel_pxp_fini+0x33/0x80 [i915]     i915_driver_remove+0x4c/0x120 [i915] i915_pci_remove+0x19/0x30 [i915] pci_device_remove+0x32/0xa0     device_release_driver_internal+0x19c/0x200 unbind_store+0x9c/0xb0 and Call Trace: release_nodes+0x11/0x70     devres_release_all+0x8a/0xc0 device_unbind_cleanup+0x9/0x70 device_release_driver_internal+0x1c1/0x200     unbind_store+0x9c/0xb0 This means that in i915, if use devm, we cannot gurantee that hwmon will always be     released before drvdata. Which means that we have a uaf if hwmon sysfs is accessed when drvdata has been     released but hwmon hasn't. The only way out of this seems to be do get rid of devm_ and release/free     everything explicitly during device unbind. v2: Change commit message and other minor code changes v3:
    Cleanup from i915_hwmon_register on error (Armin Wolf) v4: Eliminate potential static analyzer warning     (Rodrigo) Eliminate fetch_and_zero (Jani) v5: Restore previous logic for ddat_gt->hwmon_dev error return     (Andi) (CVE-2024-39479)

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Version 1.6 Jan 5, 2026, 10:40 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:U/RL:U/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202601052240
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