This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ASoC: core: fix use after free in snd_soc_remove_platform() to the 3.17-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: asoc-core-fix-use-after-free-in-snd_soc_remove_platform.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From decc27b01d584c985c231e73d3b493de6ec07af8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 13:41:23 +0200 Subject: ASoC: core: fix use after free in snd_soc_remove_platform() From: Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx> commit decc27b01d584c985c231e73d3b493de6ec07af8 upstream. Coverity spotted an use-after-free condition in snd_soc_remove_platform(). Fix this by moving snd_soc_component_cleanup() after the debug print statement which uses the component's string. Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/soc-core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/sound/soc/soc-core.c +++ b/sound/soc/soc-core.c @@ -4315,10 +4315,10 @@ void snd_soc_remove_platform(struct snd_ snd_soc_component_del_unlocked(&platform->component); mutex_unlock(&client_mutex); - snd_soc_component_cleanup(&platform->component); - dev_dbg(platform->dev, "ASoC: Unregistered platform '%s'\n", platform->component.name); + + snd_soc_component_cleanup(&platform->component); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(snd_soc_remove_platform); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.17/asoc-soc-pcm-fix-sig_bits-determination-in-soc_pcm_apply_msb.patch queue-3.17/asoc-soc-dapm-fix-use-after-free.patch queue-3.17/asoc-core-fix-use-after-free-in-snd_soc_remove_platform.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html