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Message-Id: <1260815292-18538-1-git-send-email-ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:28:12 +0200
From: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@...ia.com>
To: gregkh@...e.de, kay.sievers@...y.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] driver core: Prevent reference to freed memory on error path
priv is drv->p. So only free drv->p after we've finished using priv.
Found using a static code analysis tool
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@...ia.com>
---
drivers/base/bus.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
index 63c143e..c0c5a43 100644
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -703,9 +703,9 @@ int bus_add_driver(struct device_driver *drv)
return 0;
out_unregister:
+ kobject_put(&priv->kobj);
kfree(drv->p);
drv->p = NULL;
- kobject_put(&priv->kobj);
out_put_bus:
bus_put(bus);
return error;
--
1.6.0.4
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