2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Dean Nelson commit b6f3b7803a9231eddc36d0a2a6d2d8105ef89344 upstream. If the member 'name' of the irq_desc structure happens to point to a character string that is resident within a kernel module, problems ensue if that module is rmmod'd (at which time dynamic_irq_cleanup() is called) and then later show_interrupts() is called by someone. It is also not a good thing if the character string resided in kmalloc'd space that has been kfree'd (after having called dynamic_irq_cleanup()). dynamic_irq_cleanup() fails to NULL the 'name' member and show_interrupts() references it on a few architectures (like h8300, sh and x86). Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/irq/chip.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/irq/chip.c +++ b/kernel/irq/chip.c @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ void dynamic_irq_cleanup(unsigned int ir desc->chip_data = NULL; desc->handle_irq = handle_bad_irq; desc->chip = &no_irq_chip; + desc->name = NULL; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->lock, flags); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/