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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
	Rui Miguel Silva <rmfrfs@gmail.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org>, Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: spilib: fix use-after-free after deregistration
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 13:51:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171029125159.GA659@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171029124328.GE4240@vireshk-i7>

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 06:13:28PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 29-10-17, 13:01, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > Remove erroneous spi_master_put() after controller deregistration which
> > would access the already freed spi controller.
> > 
> > Note that spi_unregister_master() drops our only controller reference.
> > 
> > Fixes: ba3e67001b42 ("greybus: SPI: convert to a gpbridge driver")
> > Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>     # 4.9
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>

> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> 
> While looking at this I think I found another problem (I will send it as a
> separate patch later on) and this fixes it:

That's right, and I already posted a fix for that use-after-free:

	https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171029115625.32385-1-johan@kernel.org

Thanks,
Johan

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-29 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-29 12:01 [PATCH] staging: greybus: spilib: fix use-after-free after deregistration Johan Hovold
2017-10-29 12:43 ` Viresh Kumar
2017-10-29 12:51   ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2017-10-29 12:53     ` Viresh Kumar
2017-10-29 17:44 ` Rui Miguel Silva

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