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From: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, js@linuxtv.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] fix access to freed memory
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:31:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11066130991010@linuxtv.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11066130981300@linuxtv.org>

- [DVB] core: fix access to freed memory when unloading frontend
  drivers (fix by Gerd Knorr)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>

diff -rupN linux-2.6.11-rc2-bk2/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c linux-2.6.11-rc2-bk2-dvb/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
--- linux-2.6.11-rc2-bk2/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c	2005-01-24 23:18:39.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.11-rc2-bk2-dvb/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c	2005-01-25 00:17:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -912,8 +912,9 @@ int dvb_unregister_frontend(struct dvb_f
 		fe->ops->release(fe);
 	else
 		printk("dvb_frontend: Demodulator (%s) does not have a release callback!\n", fe->ops->info.name);
-	if (fe->frontend_priv)
-		kfree(fe->frontend_priv);
+	/* fe is invalid now */
+	if (fepriv)
+		kfree(fepriv);
 	up (&frontend_mutex);
 	return 0;
 }


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-25  0:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-25  0:31 [PATCH 0/4] 2.6.11-rc2-bk2 DVB fixes Johannes Stezenbach
2005-01-25  0:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] follow USB __le16 changes Johannes Stezenbach
2005-01-25  0:31 ` Johannes Stezenbach [this message]
2005-01-25  0:31 ` [PATCH 3/4] support up to six DVB cards Johannes Stezenbach
2005-01-25  0:31 ` [PATCH 4/4] cleanup firmware loading printks Johannes Stezenbach

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