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authorFlorin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>2007-03-28 22:38:55 +0200
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>2007-03-28 22:38:55 +0200
commit649fdb2a4ef44c1a2361e72bd4d7d9fa1b78b7df (patch)
treeda5482c47679c8ef3a3aa942866b772861acfe83
parent6db2121f59efe1c78c9a6dd91a6e9b718d9afe58 (diff)
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[ALSA] Dereference after free in snd_hwdep_release()
snd_card_file_remove() may free hw->card so we can't dereference hw->card->module after that. Coverity ID 1420. Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
-rw-r--r--sound/core/hwdep.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sound/core/hwdep.c b/sound/core/hwdep.c
index 618c43be0bc3..c3845f6eedce 100644
--- a/sound/core/hwdep.c
+++ b/sound/core/hwdep.c
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ static int snd_hwdep_release(struct inode *inode, struct file * file)
{
int err = -ENXIO;
struct snd_hwdep *hw = file->private_data;
+ struct module *mod = hw->card->module;
down(&hw->open_mutex);
if (hw->ops.release) {
err = hw->ops.release(hw, file);
@@ -166,7 +167,7 @@ static int snd_hwdep_release(struct inode *inode, struct file * file)
hw->used--;
snd_card_file_remove(hw->card, file);
up(&hw->open_mutex);
- module_put(hw->card->module);
+ module_put(mod);
return err;
}