CVE-2025-38142

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Evita un posible acceso no v\u00e1lido a memoria cuando no se encuentra el sensor solicitado. find_ec_sensor_index() puede devolver un valor negativo (p. ej., -ENOENT), pero su resultado se utiliz\u00f3 sin comprobarlo, lo que podr\u00eda provocar un comportamiento indefinido al pasarlo a get_sensor_info(). Se ha a\u00f1adido una comprobaci\u00f3n adecuada para devolver -EINVAL si sensor_index es negativo. Encontrado por el Centro de Verificaci\u00f3n de Linux (linuxtesting.org) con SVACE. 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