Re: [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH] TPM: Avoid reference to potentially freed memory

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 07:12:01AM +0100, Marion & Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 27/10/2015 11:27, Jarkko Sakkinen a écrit :
> >On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:37:33AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> >>On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:32:41PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> >>>Reference to the 'np' node is dropped before dereferencing the 'sizep' and
> >>>'basep' pointers, which could by then point to junk if the node has been
> >>>freed.
> >>>
> >>>Refactor code to call 'of_node_pup' later.
> >>>
> >>>Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>LGTM.
> >Is there anyone able to provide Tested-by for this?
> >
> >Christophe, were you able to reproduce the crash (insmod/rmmod couple
> >of times maybe?) and validate that it was gone after fixing the bug?
> 
> Hi,
> no, I never triggered the bug.
> This is just something noticed while looking at potential issues related to
> incorrect use of 'of_node_pup'.
> I only compile tested the patch.

The fix is so obvious that I see no reason not to include it. Thanks for
the good work.

> Best regards,
> CJ

/Jarkko
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