From dba76c033f1b88b6eb0fa697b824f954b11f8a97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maxim Levitsky Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:53:16 +0300 Subject: mtd: blkdevs: fix crash related to sysfs attributes. Remove the attributes group before disk to avoid use after free Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c') diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c index a6bb5863e8f3..89e07e5af577 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c @@ -410,13 +410,14 @@ int del_mtd_blktrans_dev(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *old) BUG(); } - /* Stop new requests to arrive */ - del_gendisk(old->disk); - if (old->disk_attributes) sysfs_remove_group(&disk_to_dev(old->disk)->kobj, old->disk_attributes); + /* Stop new requests to arrive */ + del_gendisk(old->disk); + + /* Stop the thread */ kthread_stop(old->thread); -- cgit v1.2.3