From 9b00b4157f7b3265de291ac8979a5f1611ce64ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathias Krause Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:29:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] wl12xx: fix use after free When DEBUG_SPI is included in the debug log level wl1271_spi_reset() will dump the already freed memory instead of the SPI buffer. This bug was spotted by the semantic patch tool coccinelle using the script found at scripts/coccinelle/free/kfree.cocci. More information about semantic patching is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/spi.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/spi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/spi.c index 46714910f98c..7145ea543783 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/spi.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/spi.c @@ -110,9 +110,8 @@ static void wl1271_spi_reset(struct wl1271 *wl) spi_message_add_tail(&t, &m); spi_sync(wl_to_spi(wl), &m); - kfree(cmd); - wl1271_dump(DEBUG_SPI, "spi reset -> ", cmd, WSPI_INIT_CMD_LEN); + kfree(cmd); } static void wl1271_spi_init(struct wl1271 *wl) -- 2.39.5