linux-kernel - Re: b43: fix wldev use after free

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Message-Id: <200910062335.12069.mb@bu3sch.de>
Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:35:09 +0200
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>, linville@...driver.com,
	bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: b43: fix wldev use after free

On Tuesday 06 October 2009 23:28:22 Andrew Morton wrote:
> > fix it by call b43_leds_unregister before b43_one_core_detach
> > if it is the last one in wl->devlist
> > 
> 
> It appears that a different fix was added to linux-next yesterday:

Yes, this one is better, because it doesn't really change the code. It just removes
one unnecessary pointer usage.

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Greetings, Michael.
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