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| author | Andrew Morton <[email protected]> | 2014-12-02 15:59:31 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2014-12-03 09:35:38 -0800 |
| commit | 92788ac1eb06e69a822de45e2a8a63fa45eb5be2 (patch) | |
| tree | e4cff1d7c5943d776e2a448c1fb6fade6d4139b7 | |
| parent | 91b57191cfd152c02ded0745250167d0263084f8 (diff) | |
drivers/input/evdev.c: don't kfree() a vmalloc address
If kzalloc() failed and then evdev_open_device() fails, evdev_open()
will pass a vmalloc'ed pointer to kfree.
This might fix https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88401, where
there was a crash in kfree().
Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <[email protected]>
Belatedly-Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
Cc: Henrik Rydberg <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/input/evdev.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/input/evdev.c b/drivers/input/evdev.c index bc203485716d..8afa28e4570e 100644 --- a/drivers/input/evdev.c +++ b/drivers/input/evdev.c @@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ static int evdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) err_free_client: evdev_detach_client(evdev, client); - kfree(client); + kvfree(client); return error; } |