From: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>

The current code kfree's entry and then dereferences it by accessing
entry->bssid.  Avoid the dereference-after-free by moving the kfree
after the access to entry->bssid.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1448600 ("Read from pointer after free")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c 
b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
index e36ee592c660..208f56297a75 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
@@ -1735,12 +1735,12 @@ void rtl_scan_list_expire(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
                        continue;
 
                list_del(&entry->list);
-               kfree(entry);
                rtlpriv->scan_list.num--;
 
                RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_SCAN, DBG_LOUD,
                         "BSSID=%pM is expire in scan list (total=%d)\n",
                         entry->bssid, rtlpriv->scan_list.num);
+               kfree(entry);
        }
 
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rtlpriv->locks.scan_list_lock, flags);
-- 
2.11.0

Reply via email to