This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
clk: Don't try to use a struct clk* after it could have been freed
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
clk-don-t-try-to-use-a-struct-clk-after-it-could-have-been-freed.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 10cdfe54dab034311c8e2fad9ba2dffbe616caa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 08:54:19 +0100
Subject: clk: Don't try to use a struct clk* after it could have been freed
From: Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]>
commit 10cdfe54dab034311c8e2fad9ba2dffbe616caa9 upstream.
As __clk_release could call kfree on clk and then we wouldn't have a safe way
of getting the module that owns the clock.
Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]>
Fixes: fcb0ee6a3d33 ("clk: Implement clk_unregister")
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Turquette <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/clk/clk.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
@@ -2274,14 +2274,17 @@ int __clk_get(struct clk *clk)
void __clk_put(struct clk *clk)
{
+ struct module *owner;
+
if (!clk || WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ERR(clk)))
return;
clk_prepare_lock();
+ owner = clk->owner;
kref_put(&clk->ref, __clk_release);
clk_prepare_unlock();
- module_put(clk->owner);
+ module_put(owner);
}
/*** clk rate change notifiers ***/
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.18/clk-don-t-try-to-use-a-struct-clk-after-it-could-have-been-freed.patch
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