[PATCH 14/24] misc: fix dangling pointers

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Sat Mar 20 2010 - 10:15:16 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Found using coccinelle, then reviewed. Full patchset is available via
kernel-janitors, linux-i2c, and LKML.
---
drivers/misc/ad525x_dpot.c | 2 +-
drivers/misc/ics932s401.c | 2 ++
drivers/misc/isl29003.c | 6 +++++-
drivers/misc/tsl2550.c | 6 +++++-
4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/ad525x_dpot.c b/drivers/misc/ad525x_dpot.c
index 30a59f2..3b6f437 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ad525x_dpot.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ad525x_dpot.c
@@ -567,8 +567,8 @@ static int ad525x_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
return 0;

exit_free:
- kfree(data);
i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
+ kfree(data);
exit:
dev_err(dev, "failed to create client\n");
return err;
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c b/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c
index 395a4ea..f60b7e7 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ics932s401.c
@@ -465,6 +465,7 @@ static int ics932s401_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
return 0;

exit_free:
+ i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
kfree(data);
exit:
return err;
@@ -475,6 +476,7 @@ static int ics932s401_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
struct ics932s401_data *data = i2c_get_clientdata(client);

sysfs_remove_group(&client->dev.kobj, &data->attrs);
+ i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
kfree(data);
return 0;
}
diff --git a/drivers/misc/isl29003.c b/drivers/misc/isl29003.c
index a71e245..5bd4d8b 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/isl29003.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/isl29003.c
@@ -397,15 +397,19 @@ static int __devinit isl29003_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
return 0;

exit_kfree:
+ i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
kfree(data);
return err;
}

static int __devexit isl29003_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
{
+ struct isl29003_data *data = i2c_get_clientdata(client);
+
sysfs_remove_group(&client->dev.kobj, &isl29003_attr_group);
isl29003_set_power_state(client, 0);
- kfree(i2c_get_clientdata(client));
+ i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
+ kfree(data);
return 0;
}

diff --git a/drivers/misc/tsl2550.c b/drivers/misc/tsl2550.c
index 483ae5f..230c326 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/tsl2550.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/tsl2550.c
@@ -400,6 +400,7 @@ static int __devinit tsl2550_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
return 0;

exit_kfree:
+ i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
kfree(data);
exit:
return err;
@@ -407,12 +408,15 @@ exit:

static int __devexit tsl2550_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
{
+ struct tsl2550_data *data = i2c_get_clientdata(client);
+
sysfs_remove_group(&client->dev.kobj, &tsl2550_attr_group);

/* Power down the device */
tsl2550_set_power_state(client, 0);

- kfree(i2c_get_clientdata(client));
+ i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
+ kfree(data);

return 0;
}
--
1.7.0

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