CVE-2026-80660 hwmon: (occ) unregister sysfs devices outside occ lock

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: occ unregister sysfs devices outside occ lock occactivefalse and occshutdown unregister sysfs-backed devices while occ-lock is held. hwmondeviceunregister and sysfsremovegroup can wait for active sysfs callbacks to drain,...

CVE-2026-80660

CVE-2026-80660 is a lock-ordering deadlock in the Linux kernel's hwmon (occ) driver . The functions occ_active(false) and occ_shutdown() unregister sysfs-backed devices while holding occ->lock, but hwmon_device_unregister() and sysfs_remove_group() may wait for active sysfs callbacks to drain,...