netdev - Re: [PATCH] moxa: drop free_irq of devm_request

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Date:	Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:55:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	weiyj.lk@...il.com
Cc:	grant.likely@...aro.org, rob.herring@...xeda.com,
	jg1.han@...sung.com, jonas.jensen@...il.com,
	yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] moxa: drop free_irq of devm_request_irq allocated irq

From: Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:33:29 +0800

> From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>
> 
> irq allocated with devm_request_irq should not be freed using
> free_irq, because doing so causes a dangling pointer, and a
> subsequent double free.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>

I think this is a dangerous change, if the IRQ fires after the point
of the existing free_irq() call it will try to dereference the net
device struct which will be free by the time the devm release code
runes.

I'm not applying this patch, sorry.

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