drivers/rtc/rtc-spear.c: fix use-after-free in spear_rtc_remove()
authorDevendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:01:53 +0000 (14:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:04:41 +0000 (16:04 -0700)
`config' is freed and is then used in the rtc_device_unregister() call,
causing a kernel panic.

Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/rtc/rtc-spear.c

index 1f76320e545b1cf15d563cc8996b8eed7122f14a..e2785479113ca06648949d6c6a78adee92c78367 100644 (file)
@@ -458,12 +458,12 @@ static int __devexit spear_rtc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
        clk_disable(config->clk);
        clk_put(config->clk);
        iounmap(config->ioaddr);
-       kfree(config);
        res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
        if (res)
                release_mem_region(res->start, resource_size(res));
        platform_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
        rtc_device_unregister(config->rtc);
+       kfree(config);
 
        return 0;
 }