Re: [PATCH 23/24] video/matrox: fix dangling pointers

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On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Wolfram Sang wrote:

> 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>
> Cc: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 
> Found using coccinelle, then reviewed. Full patchset is available via
> kernel-janitors, linux-i2c, and LKML.
> ---
>  drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c b/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c
> index 91af915..e7b0ec3 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c
> @@ -1254,6 +1254,7 @@ static int maven_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
>  		goto ERROR4;
>  	return 0;
>  ERROR4:;
> +	i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
>  	kfree(data);
>  ERROR0:;
>  	return err;
> -- 
> 1.7.0
> 
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