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authorTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>2007-05-10 16:45:17 +0200
committerChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>2007-05-23 14:32:49 -0700
commit82f6951e533a5d63b489dac569879105b4dd89f6 (patch)
tree4d804f3d229606bc1e75da21aad0d5a113c3953e /drivers
parent3fc9f5985e716db287a5df673156f2676e1862d0 (diff)
[PATCH] driver-core: don't free devt_attr till the device is released
Currently, devt_attr for the "dev" file is freed immediately on device removal, but if the "dev" sysfs file is open when a device is removed, sysfs will access its attribute structure for further access including close resulting in jumping to garbled address. Fix it by postponing freeing devt_attr to device release time. Note that devt_attr for class_device is already freed on release. This bug is reported by Chris Rankin as bugzilla bug#8198. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index d7fcf823a42..a8dfee20df7 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ static void device_release(struct kobject * kobj)
{
struct device * dev = to_dev(kobj);
+ kfree(dev->devt_attr);
+ dev->devt_attr = NULL;
+
if (dev->release)
dev->release(dev);
else if (dev->type && dev->type->release)
@@ -765,10 +768,8 @@ void device_del(struct device * dev)
if (parent)
klist_del(&dev->knode_parent);
- if (dev->devt_attr) {
+ if (dev->devt_attr)
device_remove_file(dev, dev->devt_attr);
- kfree(dev->devt_attr);
- }
if (dev->class) {
sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "subsystem");
/* If this is not a "fake" compatible device, remove the