# CVE-2026-98664: iio: imu: adis16400: fix unprotected debugfs reads

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.56, 7.2.10
- Published: 2026-10-18 · Updated: 2026-10-30

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.8
- Kernel (Linux): from 5.8.0, fixed in 6.6.160; from 6.7.0, fixed in 6.12.113; from 6.13.0, fixed in 6.18.56; from 6.19.0, fixed in 7.2.10

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: imu: adis16400: fix unprotected debugfs reads adis16400_serial_number_fops is open coded and never calls debugfs_file_get(), so debugfs_remove_recursive() does not wait for a read in progress and unbind frees the iio_dev underneath it. Commit ae1d37a9bb4b ("iio: imu: adis16400: use DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE instead of DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE") converted product_id and flash_count to DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE, which protects itself, but moved all three files to debugfs_create_file_unsafe(). serial_number prints three registers as "%.4x-%.4x-%.4x" and DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE() formats a single u64, so it cannot be converted without changing what the file returns. adis16475 and adis16550 already use debugfs_create_file() for their open coded files. Use it here too.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48bb3c9b4a2fac64cb17c357418ebfbd4c9ac8ff
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69cc001761894c65a0eef1bb6df911b39d30d71e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d32eb2161b452a25b03f915f431bdcb9722cd92c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3078aaef8af4648f94eeafde4b7b36efd9838d1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9b4c00f775a915b759b08bfe2c5e806a8301a59
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50e8d70ba0743f88afd7e49f9cebd1841ee677f5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f501302ebb9e1504162351b951fe3ae331c852ab
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d94787287a113a1326211647d5e0deed1e9de105

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