Re: [PATCH] Fix use-after-free when trying to load an invalid module

From: Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Date: Sat Jun 14 2003 - 20:00:08 EST

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In message <1055592512.3810.12.camel@home.lb.ods.org> you write:
> mod->module_core contains the mod structure, so it must be freed after
> mod->percpu.
> However, initialization happens in the opposite order because mod is
> moved after that, so we need to initialize module_core to 0 and check it
> later.

Thanks for the fix! This was fixed another way, though, in Linus'
tree.

Thanks,
Rusty.

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