[2.6 patch] acpi/ec.c: fix use-after-free

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Wed Oct 24 2007 - 12:42:59 EST


This patch fixes a use-after-free introduced by
commit 30c08574da0ead1a47797ce028218ce5b2de61c7.

Spotted by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
--- linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/ec.c.old 2007-10-23 19:39:47.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/ec.c 2007-10-23 19:34:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -434,11 +442,11 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_ec_add_query_handler);

void acpi_ec_remove_query_handler(struct acpi_ec *ec, u8 query_bit)
{
- struct acpi_ec_query_handler *handler;
+ struct acpi_ec_query_handler *handler, *tmp;
mutex_lock(&ec->lock);
- list_for_each_entry(handler, &ec->list, node) {
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(handler, tmp, &ec->list, node) {
if (query_bit == handler->query_bit) {
list_del(&handler->node);
kfree(handler);
}

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