[PATCH 21/28] V4L/DVB (4994): Vivi: fix use after free inlist_for_each()

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Wed Dec 27 2006 - 12:14:54 EST



From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>

Freeing data including list_head in list_for_each() is not safe.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

drivers/media/video/vivi.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/video/vivi.c b/drivers/media/video/vivi.c
index 474ddb7..3cead24 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/vivi.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/vivi.c
@@ -1363,7 +1363,9 @@ static void __exit vivi_exit(void)
struct vivi_dev *h;
struct list_head *list;

- list_for_each(list,&vivi_devlist) {
+ while (!list_empty(&vivi_devlist)) {
+ list = vivi_devlist.next;
+ list_del(list);
h = list_entry(list, struct vivi_dev, vivi_devlist);
kfree (h);
}

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