[PATCH 90/97] amd64_edac: fix driver instance freeing

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jan 04 2010 - 19:36:46 EST


From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>

commit 8f68ed9728193b1f2fb53ba06031b06bd8b3d1b4 upstream.

Fix use-after-free errors by pushing all memory-freeing calls to the end
of amd64_remove_one_instance().

Reported-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1261370306.11354.52.camel@ICE-BOX>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c | 9 ++++-----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c b/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c
index d271509..72d84d0 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c
@@ -3082,16 +3082,15 @@ static void __devexit amd64_remove_one_instance(struct pci_dev *pdev)

amd64_free_mc_sibling_devices(pvt);

- kfree(pvt);
- mci->pvt_info = NULL;
-
- mci_lookup[pvt->mc_node_id] = NULL;
-
/* unregister from EDAC MCE */
amd_report_gart_errors(false);
amd_unregister_ecc_decoder(amd64_decode_bus_error);

/* Free the EDAC CORE resources */
+ mci->pvt_info = NULL;
+ mci_lookup[pvt->mc_node_id] = NULL;
+
+ kfree(pvt);
edac_mc_free(mci);
}

--
1.6.6

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