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authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>2012-12-14 15:03:10 +0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-01-17 08:46:46 -0800
commitc08745c377c89ba6dde5c38eff96c5d7a710fd26 (patch)
tree97e65cee5eea7e769dfe783ac2691c7c0064fffd
parent633396662719397cbd7d4cb935807030d386f9de (diff)
EDAC: Fix kernel panic on module unloading
commit 311bd84247ee0bedae6cdfbfc5e2c3450f9decd1 upstream. This patch fixes use-after-free and double-free bugs in edac_mc_sysfs_exit(). mci_pdev has single reference and put_device() calls mc_attr_release() which calls kfree(). The following device_del() works with already released memory. An another kfree() in edac_mc_sysfs_exit() releses the same memory again. Great. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@gmail.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121214110310.11019.21098.stgit@zurg Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> [ a partial 3.7.y backport ] Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
index ed0bc07b8503..fe4fa1cde67e 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
@@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ int __init edac_mc_sysfs_init(void)
void __exit edac_mc_sysfs_exit(void)
{
- put_device(mci_pdev);
device_del(mci_pdev);
+ put_device(mci_pdev);
edac_put_sysfs_subsys();
}