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Message-Id: <1290192119-11704-1-git-send-email-segoon@openwall.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:41:58 +0300
From:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Anton Vorontsov <cbou@...l.ru>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] power: power_supply_core: fix use after free and memory leak

device_unregister() might free its argument.  This leads to freed
memory use in kfree().  Also use put_device() instead of kfree()
as dev may be already used in another layer after call to device_add().

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
---
 Compile tested only.

 drivers/power/power_supply_core.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/power/power_supply_core.c b/drivers/power/power_supply_core.c
index 91606bb..f06bad0 100644
--- a/drivers/power/power_supply_core.c
+++ b/drivers/power/power_supply_core.c
@@ -190,10 +190,10 @@ int power_supply_register(struct device *parent, struct power_supply *psy)
 	goto success;
 
 create_triggers_failed:
-	device_unregister(psy->dev);
+	device_del(dev);
 kobject_set_name_failed:
 device_add_failed:
-	kfree(dev);
+	put_device(dev);
 success:
 	return rc;
 }
-- 
1.7.0.4

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