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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@igalia.com>
Cc: industrypack-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jens Taprogge <jens.taprogge@taprogge.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ipack: avoid double free on device->id
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:47:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130308174701.GA13276@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362730907-10047-1-git-send-email-siglesias@igalia.com>

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 09:21:45AM +0100, Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@igalia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/ipack/ipack.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/ipack/ipack.c b/drivers/ipack/ipack.c
> index 7ec6b20..599d4ff 100644
> --- a/drivers/ipack/ipack.c
> +++ b/drivers/ipack/ipack.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ static void ipack_device_release(struct device *dev)
>  {
>  	struct ipack_device *device = to_ipack_dev(dev);
>  	kfree(device->id);
> +	device->id = NULL;

How does that keep anything from being freed twice?

>  	device->release(device);

device should now be gone after this call, right?  What am I missing?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-08 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-26  9:03 [PATCH] ipack: add missing put_device() after device_register() failed Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez
2013-02-26 22:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2013-02-27  9:00   ` Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez
2013-03-08  8:21     ` [PATCH 1/3] ipack: avoid double free on device->id Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez
2013-03-08  8:21       ` [PATCH 2/3] ipack: add ipack_get_device() ipack_put_device() Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez
2013-03-08  8:21       ` [PATCH 3/3] ipack: split ipack_device_register() in several functions Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez
2013-03-08 17:47       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-03-08 18:11         ` [PATCH 1/3] ipack: avoid double free on device->id Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez
2013-03-08 19:36           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-03-11  7:58             ` Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez
2013-03-08 18:11         ` Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez

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