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pti: double-free security PTI fix

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This patch fixes a double-free error that will not always be
seen unless /dev/pti char interface is stressed.

Signed-off-by: J Freyensee <james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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J Freyensee 2011-05-25 14:38:18 -07:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 9d031d94da
commit 29021bccea
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/misc/pti.c
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@ -317,7 +317,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pti_request_masterchannel);
* a master, channel ID address
* used to write to PTI HW.
*
* @mc: master, channel apeture ID address to be released.
* @mc: master, channel apeture ID address to be released. This
* will de-allocate the structure via kfree().
*/
void pti_release_masterchannel(struct pti_masterchannel *mc)
{
@ -581,7 +582,7 @@ static int pti_char_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
static int pti_char_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
pti_release_masterchannel(filp->private_data);
kfree(filp->private_data);
filp->private_data = NULL;
return 0;
}