In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (coretemp) Check for null before removing sysfs attrs
If coretempaddcore() gets an error then pdata->coredata[indx] is already NULL and has been kfreed. Don't pass that to sysfsremovegroup() as that will crash in sysfsremove_group().
[Shortened for readability] [91854.020159] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/temp20label' <cpu offline> [91855.126115] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000188 [91855.165103] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [91855.194506] #PF: errorcode(0x0000) - not-present page [91855.224445] PGD 0 P4D 0 [91855.238508] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI ... [91855.342716] RIP: 0010:sysfsremovegroup+0xc/0x80 ... [91855.796571] Call Trace: [91855.810524] coretempcpuoffline+0x12b/0x1dd [coretemp] [91855.841738] ? coretempcpuonline+0x180/0x180 [coretemp] [91855.871107] cpuhpinvokecallback+0x105/0x4b0 [91855.893432] cpuhpthreadfun+0x8e/0x150 ...
Fix this by checking for NULL first.