On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:26:47AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com> > > When associating a "physical" device with an ACPI device object > acpi_bind_one() only uses get_device() to increment the reference > counter of the former, but there is no reason not to do that with > the latter too. Among other things, that may help to avoid > use-after-free when an ACPI device object is freed without calling > acpi_unbind_one() for all "physical" devices associated with it > (that only can happen in buggy code, but then it's better if the > kernel doesn't crash as a result of a bug). > > For this reason, modify acpi_bind_one() to apply get_device() to > the ACPI device object too and update acpi_unbind_one() to drop > that reference using put_device() as appropriate. > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
