[PATCH 09/24] macintosh: fix dangling pointers
Wolfram Sang
w.sang at pengutronix.de
Sun Mar 21 01:12:50 EST 2010
Fix I2C-drivers which missed setting clientdata to NULL before freeing the
structure it points to. Also fix drivers which do this _after_ the structure
was freed already.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang at pengutronix.de>
Cc: Colin Leroy <colin at colino.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---
Found using coccinelle, then reviewed. Full patchset is available via
kernel-janitors, linux-i2c, and LKML.
---
drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c b/drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c
index c42eeb4..16d82f1 100644
--- a/drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c
+++ b/drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ remove_thermostat(struct i2c_client *client)
thermostat = NULL;
+ i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
kfree(th);
return 0;
@@ -399,6 +400,7 @@ static int probe_thermostat(struct i2c_client *client,
rc = read_reg(th, CONFIG_REG);
if (rc < 0) {
dev_err(&client->dev, "Thermostat failed to read config!\n");
+ i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
kfree(th);
return -ENODEV;
}
--
1.7.0
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