On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Andy Walls wrote:

> Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:49:51PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >> If calling put_ir_rx(rx, true); in
> >> drivers/staging/lirc/lirc_zilog.c::ir_probe() returns true (1) then
> >it
> >> means that it has freed it's first argument. Subsequently jumping to
> >> 'out_put_xx' will cause us to call put_ir_rx() once more since 'rx'
> >is
> >> not zero - leading to a double free.
> >
> >It would be better to just remove the first call to put_ir_rx().
> >
> >regards,
> >dan carpenter
> 
> Jesper,
> 
> Could you forward your original patch email to me?  I never got it.
> 
> I was the one who added all the new ref counting to lirc_zilog and it was not 
> fun to get right (well at least what I thought was right...).
> 

Sure. I've just forwarded both the original patch mail and the mail with 
the updated version to  Andy Walls <[email protected]>

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