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From: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: [PATCH] b43: fix use-after-free rfkill bug
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:30:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080113183014.675e64a3@morte> (raw)

Fix rfkill code which caused a use-after-free bug.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
---
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43/rfkill.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/rfkill.c
+++ wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43/rfkill.c
@@ -138,8 +138,11 @@ void b43_rfkill_init(struct b43_wldev *d
 	rfk->rfkill->user_claim_unsupported = 1;
 
 	rfk->poll_dev = input_allocate_polled_device();
-	if (!rfk->poll_dev)
-		goto err_free_rfk;
+	if (!rfk->poll_dev) {
+		rfkill_free(rfk->rfkill);
+		goto err_freed_rfk;
+	}
+
 	rfk->poll_dev->private = dev;
 	rfk->poll_dev->poll = b43_rfkill_poll;
 	rfk->poll_dev->poll_interval = 1000; /* msecs */
@@ -175,8 +178,7 @@ err_unreg_rfk:
 err_free_polldev:
 	input_free_polled_device(rfk->poll_dev);
 	rfk->poll_dev = NULL;
-err_free_rfk:
-	rfkill_free(rfk->rfkill);
+err_freed_rfk:
 	rfk->rfkill = NULL;
 out_error:
 	rfk->registered = 0;
@@ -195,6 +197,5 @@ void b43_rfkill_exit(struct b43_wldev *d
 	rfkill_unregister(rfk->rfkill);
 	input_free_polled_device(rfk->poll_dev);
 	rfk->poll_dev = NULL;
-	rfkill_free(rfk->rfkill);
 	rfk->rfkill = NULL;
 }


--
Ciao
Stefano

             reply	other threads:[~2008-01-13 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-13 17:30 Stefano Brivio [this message]
2008-01-13 17:41 ` [PATCH] b43: fix use-after-free rfkill bug Michael Buesch

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