]> git.karo-electronics.de Git - karo-tx-linux.git/commitdiff
x25: Do not reference freed memory.
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:48:36 +0000 (21:48 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:45:26 +0000 (12:45 -0700)
commit 96642d42f076101ba98866363d908cab706d156c upstream.

In x25_link_free(), we destroy 'nb' before dereferencing
'nb->dev'.  Don't do this, because 'nb' might be freed
by then.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
net/x25/x25_link.c

index 8954783597c51c40608c5da9672cd0162a42b4c5..3f1816a628442006a0d28f2128032292090f4189 100644 (file)
@@ -391,9 +391,12 @@ void __exit x25_link_free(void)
        write_lock_bh(&x25_neigh_list_lock);
 
        list_for_each_safe(entry, tmp, &x25_neigh_list) {
+               struct net_device *dev;
+
                nb = list_entry(entry, struct x25_neigh, node);
+               dev = nb->dev;
                __x25_remove_neigh(nb);
-               dev_put(nb->dev);
+               dev_put(dev);
        }
        write_unlock_bh(&x25_neigh_list_lock);
 }