CVE-2026-74604

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Revert "thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit" Revert commit 030a48b0f6ce ("thermal/drivers/hwmon: Cleanup coding style a bit") that introduced a use-after-free into the error path of thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs() by removing a valid check from it.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2434f4765da8ccd7ef31be88b86f1bfa2e95be11
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a48ee9a5bda0f8ee501f9bef159fb9f39ff519a
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b446d335ba16e93a266dd77adf1ba51abc82df4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d34019d1413629a434a7e8d9f91c76d256196a0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/999e573212d5f1debf073c68be35e55bbfad12fc