[patch] aoe: use after free in aoedev_by_aoeaddr()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri Dec 07 2012 - 01:19:37 EST


We should return NULL on failure instead of returning a freed pointer.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c
index e66ccbf..98f2965 100644
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c
@@ -461,6 +461,7 @@ aoedev_by_aoeaddr(ulong maj, int min, int do_alloc)
d->targets = kcalloc(NTARGETS, sizeof(*d->targets), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!d->targets) {
kfree(d);
+ d = NULL;
goto out;
}
d->ntargets = NTARGETS;
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