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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Marion & Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] TPM: Avoid reference to potentially freed memory
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:48:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151029104844.GA10327@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5631B8B1.9020000@wanadoo.fr>

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 07:12:01AM +0100, Marion & Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 27/10/2015 11:27, Jarkko Sakkinen a écrit :
> >On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:37:33AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> >>On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:32:41PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> >>>Reference to the 'np' node is dropped before dereferencing the 'sizep' and
> >>>'basep' pointers, which could by then point to junk if the node has been
> >>>freed.
> >>>
> >>>Refactor code to call 'of_node_pup' later.
> >>>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
> >>LGTM.
> >Is there anyone able to provide Tested-by for this?
> >
> >Christophe, were you able to reproduce the crash (insmod/rmmod couple
> >of times maybe?) and validate that it was gone after fixing the bug?
> 
> Hi,
> no, I never triggered the bug.
> This is just something noticed while looking at potential issues related to
> incorrect use of 'of_node_pup'.
> I only compile tested the patch.

The fix is so obvious that I see no reason not to include it. Thanks for
the good work.

> Best regards,
> CJ

/Jarkko
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-29 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-22 20:32 [PATCH] TPM: Avoid reference to potentially freed memory Christophe JAILLET
2015-10-23  7:37 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2015-10-27 10:27   ` [tpmdd-devel] " Jarkko Sakkinen
2015-10-29  6:12     ` Marion & Christophe JAILLET
2015-10-29 10:48       ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2015-10-30 11:38         ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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