In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (lm90) Add lock protection to lm90_alert
Sashiko reports:
lm90alert() executes in the smbus alert context and calls lm90updateconfreg() to disable the hardware alert line, without acquiring hwmonlock.
Concurrently, sysfs write operations (such as lm90writeconvrate) hold the hwmon_lock, temporarily modify data->config, and then restore it.
If an alert interrupt occurs concurrently with a sysfs write, the sysfs path will overwrite the alert handler's modifications to data->config and the hardware register.
This unintentionally re-enables the hardware alert line while the alarm is still active, causing an interrupt storm.
Add the missing lock to lm90_alert() to solve the problem.
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