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: c86d62cc410c ("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>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.h
index 655ddd204ab2..c35be477856f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.h
@@ -359,6 +359,10 @@ static inline int mlxsw_hwmon_init(struct mlxsw_core *mlxsw_core,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline void mlxsw_hwmon_fini(struct mlxsw_hwmon *mlxsw_hwmon)
+{
+}
+
 #endif
 
 struct mlxsw_thermal;