From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:39:45 +0000 Subject: bug report: ath6kl: use after free Message-Id: <20101016183944.GR6614@bicker> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Hi Vipin, There is a use after free bug in ar6000_ioctl_set_channelParams(). I'm not sure how to fix it. drivers/staging/ath6kl/os/linux/ioctl.c +374 ar6000_ioctl_set_channelParams(51) warn: 'cmdp' was already freed. 370 if (cmd.numChannels > 1) { 371 kfree(cmdp); ^^^^ freed here. 372 } 373 374 ar->ap_wmode = cmdp->phyMode; ^^^^^^ dereferenced here. regards, dan carpenter