Re: [PATCH 12/12] edac: fix kernel panic on module unloading

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sat Dec 15 2012 - 12:53:46 EST


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 03:03:10PM +0400, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> This patch fixes use-after-free and double-free bugs in
> edac_mc_sysfs_exit(). mci_pdev has single reference and put_device()
> calls mc_attr_release() which calls kfree(), thus following
> device_del() works with already released memory. An another kfree() in
> edac_mc_sysfs_exit() releses the same memory again. Great.

Applied and tagged for 3.6 and 3.7 stable.

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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