The irq handler will touch memory. Even in the error case some URBs may complete. Thus no memory must be kfreed before all URBs are killed.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]> -- commit e91d238d2b6f83f9b64b57b570ee150b1cd008e7 Author: Oliver Neukum <oneu...@linux-d698.(none)> Date: Fri Jul 3 18:18:26 2009 +0200 stv680: fix access to freed memory in error case in the error case some URBs may be active and access memory URBs must be killed before any memory is freed diff --git a/drivers/media/video/stv680.c b/drivers/media/video/stv680.c index 75f286f..58c0148 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/stv680.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/stv680.c @@ -733,10 +733,6 @@ static int stv680_start_stream (struct usb_stv *stv680) return 0; nomem_err: - for (i = 0; i < STV680_NUMSCRATCH; i++) { - kfree(stv680->scratch[i].data); - stv680->scratch[i].data = NULL; - } for (i = 0; i < STV680_NUMSBUF; i++) { usb_kill_urb(stv680->urb[i]); usb_free_urb(stv680->urb[i]); @@ -744,6 +740,11 @@ static int stv680_start_stream (struct usb_stv *stv680) kfree(stv680->sbuf[i].data); stv680->sbuf[i].data = NULL; } + /* used in irq, free only as all URBs are dead */ + for (i = 0; i < STV680_NUMSCRATCH; i++) { + kfree(stv680->scratch[i].data); + stv680->scratch[i].data = NULL; + } return -ENOMEM; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
