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Message-Id: <1261597963-18323-8-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:52:41 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@...ia.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 08/10] driver core: Prevent reference to freed memory on error path

From: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@...ia.com>

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
---
 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;
-- 
1.6.5.7

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