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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-02-09 21:48:36 -0800
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>2011-04-17 16:16:15 -0400
commit1ccf475f3f27eed4a82e1d79ef5d5984ebaf94a6 (patch)
treef40f835ce957dd5ee6a2f81cf081dc5441802272
parent352247f7d619d947d6f6ce05e18216a4fede2a7c (diff)
x25: Do not reference freed memory.
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: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
-rw-r--r--net/x25/x25_link.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/x25/x25_link.c b/net/x25/x25_link.c
index b25c6463c3e9..88048b6b0b2b 100644
--- a/net/x25/x25_link.c
+++ b/net/x25/x25_link.c
@@ -392,9 +392,12 @@ 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);
}