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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-02-09 21:48:36 -0800
committerAK <andi@firstfloor.org>2011-03-31 11:58:15 -0700
commit4bb1e0d018b987cbbac02b631242cbecdf4c6ae0 (patch)
treeca4f2d9d6e869d64281d3ee3032238bd0a1091b1 /net
parent0fa2aea484fd2fd9a713c77445a1bc49eafd3ad7 (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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-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);
}