Re: [PATCH] drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c: clear dangling pointer

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Tue Dec 27 2011 - 16:55:09 EST


Am Freitag, 23. Dezember 2011, 14:02:55 schrieb Julia Lawall:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
>
> On some failures, the country_code field of an acm structure is freed
> without freeing the acm structure itself. Elsewhere, operations including
> memcpy and kfree are performed on the country_code field. The patch sets
> the country_code field to NULL when it is freed, and likewise sets the
> country_code_size field to 0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Oliver NEukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx>

This is in principle oopsable and should go into stable.

Regards
Oliver
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