linux-kernel - Re: commit c7e88ecbe328 ("staging: r8188eu: remove rtw_buf

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Date:   Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:23:25 +0200
From:   "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Fabio Aiuto <fabioaiuto83@...il.com>
Cc:     hdegoede@...hat.com, Larry.Finger@...inger.net,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: commit c7e88ecbe328 ("staging: r8188eu: remove rtw_buf_free() function")

On Tuesday, August 3, 2021 9:21:30 AM CEST Fabio Aiuto wrote:
> 
> Do you have any idea of what happened? This
> topic could give us all deeper understanding
> of kernel memory management.
> 
Hi Fabio,

I've just briefly looked at that c7e88ecbe328. I have no time to dig it deeper 
but at a first look it seems that the following line is the culprit:

kfree(&pmlmepriv->assoc_req);

It should be:

kfree(pmlmepriv->assoc_req);

The second line frees the memory location whose address is saved in assoc_rec; 
the first line instead frees assoc_req itself.

Regards,

Fabio