From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: + drivers-rtc-rtc-pcf50633c-fix-use-after-free-in-pcf50633_rtc_probe.patch added to -mm tree Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:48:50 -0800 Message-ID: <200911202248.nAKMmojf002768@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:36699 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754129AbZKTWsx (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:48:53 -0500 Sender: mm-commits-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org Cc: error27@gmail.com, a.zummo@towertech.it, david-b@pacbell.net, p_gortmaker@yahoo.com The patch titled drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf50633.c: fix use after free in pcf50633_rtc_probe() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-rtc-rtc-pcf50633c-fix-use-after-free-in-pcf50633_rtc_probe.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf50633.c: fix use after free in pcf50633_rtc_probe() From: Dan Carpenter "rtc" is freed and then dereferenced on the next line. This patch fixes that. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo Cc: David Brownell Cc: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf50633.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf50633.c~drivers-rtc-rtc-pcf50633c-fix-use-after-free-in-pcf50633_rtc_probe drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf50633.c --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf50633.c~drivers-rtc-rtc-pcf50633c-fix-use-after-free-in-pcf50633_rtc_probe +++ a/drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf50633.c @@ -289,8 +289,9 @@ static int __devinit pcf50633_rtc_probe( &pcf50633_rtc_ops, THIS_MODULE); if (IS_ERR(rtc->rtc_dev)) { + int ret = PTR_ERR(rtc->rtc_dev); kfree(rtc); - return PTR_ERR(rtc->rtc_dev); + return ret; } pcf50633_register_irq(rtc->pcf, PCF50633_IRQ_ALARM, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from error27@gmail.com are drivers-rtc-rtc-pcf50633c-fix-use-after-free-in-pcf50633_rtc_probe.patch linux-next.patch