From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:19:51 +0000 Subject: bug report: frontier: use after free Message-Id: <20100316101951.GD5331@bicker> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org drivers/staging/frontier/alphatrack.c +854 usb_alphatrack_disconnect() 845 /* if the device is not opened, then we clean up right now */ 846 if (!dev->open_count) { 847 up(&dev->sem); 848 usb_alphatrack_delete(dev); We free "dev" here. 849 } else { 850 dev->intf = NULL; 851 up(&dev->sem); 852 } 853 854 atomic_set(&dev->writes_pending, 0); We use it here. regards, dan carpenter