This patch fixes an obvious use-after-free introduced by commit 837012ede14a8fc088be3682c964da7fc6af026b. Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> --- --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/acpi/ec.c.old 2007-07-28 07:59:49.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/drivers/acpi/ec.c 2007-07-28 08:00:25.000000000 +0200 @@ -730,14 +730,14 @@ static int acpi_ec_remove(struct acpi_device *device, int type) { struct acpi_ec *ec; - struct acpi_ec_query_handler *handler; + struct acpi_ec_query_handler *handler, *tmp; if (!device) return -EINVAL; ec = acpi_driver_data(device); mutex_lock(&ec->lock); - list_for_each_entry(handler, &ec->list, node) { + list_for_each_entry_safe(handler, tmp, &ec->list, node) { list_del(&handler->node); kfree(handler); } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html