From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kalle Valo Subject: Re: [-next] rtlwifi: kfree entry until after entry->bssid has been accessed Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:58:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <20170727105836.02AB5607C8@smtp.codeaurora.org> References: <20170630100843.9188-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Larry Finger , Chaoming Li , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Colin Ian King Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170630100843.9188-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Colin Ian King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King > > The current code kfree's entry and then dereferences it by accessing > entry->bssid. Avoid the dereference-after-free by moving the kfree > after the access to entry->bssid. > > Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1448600 ("Read from pointer after free") > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks. d0116f6f7b30 rtlwifi: kfree entry until after entry->bssid has been accessed -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9819083/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches