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Message-ID: <5631B8B1.9020000@wanadoo.fr>
Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:12:01 +0100
From:	Marion & Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:	Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, tpmdd-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] TPM: Avoid reference to potentially freed
 memory



Le 27/10/2015 11:27, Jarkko Sakkinen a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:37:33AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:32:41PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>>> Reference to the 'np' node is dropped before dereferencing the 'sizep' and
>>> 'basep' pointers, which could by then point to junk if the node has been
>>> freed.
>>>
>>> Refactor code to call 'of_node_pup' later.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
>> LGTM.
> Is there anyone able to provide Tested-by for this?
>
> Christophe, were you able to reproduce the crash (insmod/rmmod couple
> of times maybe?) and validate that it was gone after fixing the bug?

Hi,
no, I never triggered the bug.
This is just something noticed while looking at potential issues related 
to incorrect use of 'of_node_pup'.
I only compile tested the patch.

Best regards,
CJ

>
>> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
> /Jarkko
>

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