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authorMatthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>2008-08-20 22:50:16 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-09-08 04:44:16 -0700
commite76d1b317c210f0d9508f2b0bf3204b6849d3da6 (patch)
treea603f745f090c7977d8411b47061c77094db8e5d
parent045eff1504ce63a080b79f931ec3d8e136fb65cd (diff)
eeepc-laptop: fix use after free
commit f14413184b1de4dcbd5ec3e7c129c3ce2079f543 upstream Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:08:57 -0700 Subject: eeepc-laptop: fix use after free eeepc-laptop uses the hwmon struct after unregistering the device, causing an oops on module unload. Flip the ordering to fix. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net> Cc: Karol Kozimor <sziwan@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/eeepc-laptop.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/eeepc-laptop.c b/drivers/misc/eeepc-laptop.c
index 6d727609097..3f3abf941f1 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/eeepc-laptop.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/eeepc-laptop.c
@@ -553,9 +553,9 @@ static void eeepc_hwmon_exit(void)
hwmon = eeepc_hwmon_device;
if (!hwmon)
return ;
- hwmon_device_unregister(hwmon);
sysfs_remove_group(&hwmon->kobj,
&hwmon_attribute_group);
+ hwmon_device_unregister(hwmon);
eeepc_hwmon_device = NULL;
}