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* [patch] Staging: mrst-touchscreen: dereferencing free memory
@ 2010-06-05 17:16 Dan Carpenter
  2010-06-07  8:59 ` Alan Cox
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2010-06-05 17:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kernel-janitors

I moved the kfree() down a couple lines after the dereference.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/mrst-touchscreen/intel-mid-touch.c b/drivers/staging/mrst-touchscreen/intel-mid-touch.c
index 1db0097..abba22f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/mrst-touchscreen/intel-mid-touch.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/mrst-touchscreen/intel-mid-touch.c
@@ -817,9 +817,9 @@ static int mrstouch_remove(struct spi_device *spi)
 	free_irq(mrstouchdevp->irq, mrstouchdevp);
 	input_unregister_device(mrstouchdevp->input);
 	input_free_device(mrstouchdevp->input);
-	kfree(mrstouchdevp);
 	if (mrstouchdevp->pendet_thrd)
 		kthread_stop(mrstouchdevp->pendet_thrd);
+	kfree(mrstouchdevp);
 	return 0;
 }
 

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* Re: [patch] Staging: mrst-touchscreen: dereferencing free memory
  2010-06-05 17:16 [patch] Staging: mrst-touchscreen: dereferencing free memory Dan Carpenter
@ 2010-06-07  8:59 ` Alan Cox
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 2010-06-07  8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kernel-janitors

On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 19:16:42 +0200
Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> wrote:

> I moved the kfree() down a couple lines after the dereference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>


Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

Thanks

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