Commit e0cd3e38 authored by Florin Malita's avatar Florin Malita Committed by Chris Wright

[PATCH] 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.

This bug actually causes an Oops at usb-disconnection, especially
with CONFIG_PREEMPT.

From: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
parent 0136d6ea
......@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ 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;
mutex_lock(&hw->open_mutex);
if (hw->ops.release) {
err = hw->ops.release(hw, file);
......@@ -167,7 +168,7 @@ static int snd_hwdep_release(struct inode *inode, struct file * file)
hw->used--;
snd_card_file_remove(hw->card, file);
mutex_unlock(&hw->open_mutex);
module_put(hw->card->module);
module_put(mod);
return err;
}
......
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