From: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:58:30 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] cdev: cdev_put oops
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.13-rc3~37
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7da6844cf7bc44dcda548a0a0aebf85f3a1c1485;p=linux-2.6

[PATCH] cdev: cdev_put oops

While fixing an oops in the st driver in a dirty release path, I
encountered an oops in cdev_put for cdevs allocated using cdev_alloc.  If
cdev_del is called when the cdev kobject still has an open user, when the
last cdev_put is called, the cdev_put will call kobject_put, which will end
up ultimately releasing the cdev in cdev_dynamic_release.  Patch fixes the
oops by preventing cdev_put from accessing freed memory.

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index a69a5d8a40..3b1b1eefdb 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -277,8 +277,9 @@ static struct kobject *cdev_get(struct cdev *p)
 void cdev_put(struct cdev *p)
 {
 	if (p) {
+		struct module *owner = p->owner;
 		kobject_put(&p->kobj);
-		module_put(p->owner);
+		module_put(owner);
 	}
 }