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From: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>,
	stable@kernel.org, Arnaud Patard <apatard@mandriva.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] rt2x00: Fix SLAB corruption during rmmod
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:13:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E7F3E6.2010809@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090417001807.GA5020@hera.kernel.org>

Hi Chris,

On 04/17/09 02:18, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Ivo van Doorn (ivdoorn@gmail.com) wrote:
>> At rmmod stage, the code path is the following one :
>>
>> rt2x00lib_remove_dev
>>   ->  rt2x00lib_uninitialize()
>>         -> rt2x00rfkill_unregister()
>>              -> rfkill_unregister()
>>         -> rt2x00rfkill_free()
>>              -> rfkill_free()
>>
>> The problem is that rfkill_free should not be called after rfkill_register
>> otherwise put_device(&rfkill->dev) will be called 2 times. This patch
>> fixes this by only calling rt2x00rfkill_free() when rt2x00rfkill_register()
>> hasn't been called or has failed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
>> Tested-by: Arnaud Patard <apatard@mandriva.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
> 
> Who is the Author of this patch?  The Signed-off-by order suggests is
> Gertjan.
> 


Indeed, I have been the author of the patch.

---
Gertjan.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-17  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-01 19:18 [PATCH] rt2x00: Fix SLAB corruption during rmmod Ivo van Doorn
2009-04-17  0:18 ` [stable] " Chris Wright
2009-04-17  3:13   ` Gertjan van Wingerde [this message]
2009-04-17  6:56     ` Ivo Van Doorn
2009-04-17 20:26       ` Chris Wright

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