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[PATCH] b43legacy: fix use-after-free rfkill bug

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Fix rfkill code which caused a use-after-free bug. Thanks to David
Woodhouse for spotting this out.

Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/rfkill.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/rfkill.c
+++ wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/rfkill.c
@@ -141,8 +141,11 @@ void b43legacy_rfkill_init(struct b43leg
 	rfk->rfkill->user_claim_unsupported = 1;
 
 	rfk->poll_dev = input_allocate_polled_device();
-	if (!rfk->poll_dev)
-		goto err_free_rfk;
+	if (!rfk->poll_dev) {
+		rfkill_free(rfk->rfkill);
+		goto err_freed_rfk;
+	}
+
 	rfk->poll_dev->private = dev;
 	rfk->poll_dev->poll = b43legacy_rfkill_poll;
 	rfk->poll_dev->poll_interval = 1000; /* msecs */
@@ -178,8 +181,7 @@ err_unreg_rfk:
 err_free_polldev:
 	input_free_polled_device(rfk->poll_dev);
 	rfk->poll_dev = NULL;
-err_free_rfk:
-	rfkill_free(rfk->rfkill);
+err_freed_rfk:
 	rfk->rfkill = NULL;
 out_error:
 	rfk->registered = 0;
@@ -198,7 +200,6 @@ void b43legacy_rfkill_exit(struct b43leg
 	rfkill_unregister(rfk->rfkill);
 	input_free_polled_device(rfk->poll_dev);
 	rfk->poll_dev = NULL;
-	rfkill_free(rfk->rfkill);
 	rfk->rfkill = NULL;
 }


--
Ciao
Stefano
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