From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Tomeu Vizoso , Stephen Boyd , Michael Turquette Subject: [PATCH 3.14 41/98] clk: Dont try to use a struct clk* after it could have been freed Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:06:59 -0800 Message-Id: <20150125180714.666344887@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20150125180712.859646324@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20150125180712.859646324@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tomeu Vizoso commit 10cdfe54dab034311c8e2fad9ba2dffbe616caa9 upstream. As __clk_release could call kfree on clk and then we wouldn't have a safe way of getting the module that owns the clock. Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso Fixes: fcb0ee6a3d33 ("clk: Implement clk_unregister") Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd Signed-off-by: Michael Turquette Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/clk/clk.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c @@ -2233,14 +2233,17 @@ int __clk_get(struct clk *clk) void __clk_put(struct clk *clk) { + struct module *owner; + if (!clk || WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ERR(clk))) return; clk_prepare_lock(); + owner = clk->owner; kref_put(&clk->ref, __clk_release); clk_prepare_unlock(); - module_put(clk->owner); + module_put(owner); } /*** clk rate change notifiers ***/