From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757506Ab2I2HLV (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:11:21 -0400 Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:48159 "EHLO acsinet15.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755031Ab2I2HLT (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:11:19 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:11:04 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Maxim Levitsky Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe Subject: [patch 1/2] memstick: use after free in msb_disk_release() Message-ID: <20120929071104.GB10993@elgon.mountain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The original code dereferenced "msb" after freeing it. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c b/drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c index c815fe5..a8e8915 100644 --- a/drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c +++ b/drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c @@ -1983,9 +1983,9 @@ static int msb_disk_release(struct gendisk *disk) msb->usage_count--; if (!msb->usage_count) { - kfree(msb); disk->private_data = NULL; idr_remove(&msb_disk_idr, msb->disk_id); + kfree(msb); put_disk(disk); } }