Hi, Here's a patch that fixes the use-after-free bug that Seth Hallem found in the MCT_232 usb-serial driver. It is against 2.4.3-pre4. thanks, greg k-h -- greg@(kroah|wirex).com
diff -Naur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.3-pre4/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c linux-2.4.3-pre4-greg/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c --- linux-2.4.3-pre4/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c Thu Feb 22 23:43:26 2001 +++ linux-2.4.3-pre4-greg/drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c Mon Mar 19 14:24:53 2001 @@ -346,8 +346,8 @@ mct_u232_close (&serial->port[i], NULL); } /* My special items, the standard routines free my urbs */ - if (serial->port->private) - kfree(serial->port->private); + if (serial->port[i].private) + kfree(serial->port[i].private); } } /* mct_u232_shutdown */