linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] dereferencing freed in saa5246a.c

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Date:	Wed, 06 May 2009 17:13:33 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mchehab@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] dereferencing freed in saa5246a.c

From: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

I lowered the kfree(t) down a couple lines and removed the superflous
"t->vdev = NULL;"

regards,
dan carpenter

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
---

 drivers/media/video/saa5246a.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/drivers/media/video/saa5246a.c b/drivers/media/video/saa5246a.c
index da47b2f..155804b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/saa5246a.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/saa5246a.c
@@ -1092,9 +1092,8 @@ static int saa5246a_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 	/* Register it */
 	err = video_register_device(t->vdev, VFL_TYPE_VTX, -1);
 	if (err < 0) {
-		kfree(t);
 		video_device_release(t->vdev);
-		t->vdev = NULL;
+		kfree(t);
 		return err;
 	}
 	return 0;

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