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Message-ID: <20090506161338.24311.81203.stgit@t61.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 17:13:45 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mchehab@...hat.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] dereferencing freed in saa5249.c
From: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
I moved the kfree() down a couple lines. t->vdev is going to be in freed
memory so there is no point setting it to NULL. I added a kfree(t) on a
different error path.
regards,
dan carpenter
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
---
drivers/media/video/saa5249.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/saa5249.c b/drivers/media/video/saa5249.c
index 48b27fe..271d6e9 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/saa5249.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/saa5249.c
@@ -598,6 +598,7 @@ static int saa5249_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
/* Now create a video4linux device */
t->vdev = video_device_alloc();
if (t->vdev == NULL) {
+ kfree(t);
kfree(client);
return -ENOMEM;
}
@@ -617,9 +618,8 @@ static int saa5249_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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