From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 07:11:04 +0000 Subject: [patch 1/2] memstick: use after free in msb_disk_release() Message-Id: <20120929071104.GB10993@elgon.mountain> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Maxim Levitsky Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe The original code dereferenced "msb" after freeing it. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c b/drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c index c815fe5..a8e8915 100644 --- a/drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c +++ b/drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c @@ -1983,9 +1983,9 @@ static int msb_disk_release(struct gendisk *disk) msb->usage_count--; if (!msb->usage_count) { - kfree(msb); disk->private_data = NULL; idr_remove(&msb_disk_idr, msb->disk_id); + kfree(msb); put_disk(disk); } }