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Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:48:27 +0800
From:	Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>, Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Youquan Song <youquan.song@...el.com>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	chenkeping@...wei.com
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] Fix an access-after-free issue in function pci_stop_and_remove_bus()

If pci_stop_and_remove_bus() is called to remove a pci root bus,
the host_bridge structure may have already been freed after returning
from pci_remove_bus(), so don't access the structure any more.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...wei.com>
---
 drivers/pci/remove.c |    3 ---
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/remove.c b/drivers/pci/remove.c
index 75b0092..25f368e 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/remove.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/remove.c
@@ -194,9 +194,6 @@ void pci_stop_and_remove_bus(struct pci_bus *bus)
 
 	pci_remove_bus(bus);
 
-	if (host_bridge)
-		host_bridge->bus = NULL;
-
 	if (pci_bridge)
 		pci_bridge->subordinate = NULL;
 }
-- 
1.7.5.4

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