Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2017-07-31

[PATCH v2] video: fbdev: imxfb: use after free in imxfb_remove()

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From: Dan Carpenter <hidden>
Date: 2017-07-13 07:53:14
Also in: kernel-janitors
Subsystem: framebuffer layer, freescale imx / mxc framebuffer driver, the rest · Maintainers: Helge Deller, Sascha Hauer, Linus Torvalds

We free "info" then dereference it on the next line.  Really this whole
function would be better if we wrote it to unwind in the mirror of how
things are allocated in the probe.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <redacted>
---
v2: re-order the whole function
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/imxfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/imxfb.c
index c166e0725be5..ba82f97fb42b 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/imxfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/imxfb.c
@@ -1073,20 +1073,16 @@ static int imxfb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	imxfb_disable_controller(fbi);
 
 	unregister_framebuffer(info);
-
+	fb_dealloc_cmap(&info->cmap);
 	pdata = dev_get_platdata(&pdev->dev);
 	if (pdata && pdata->exit)
 		pdata->exit(fbi->pdev);
-
-	fb_dealloc_cmap(&info->cmap);
-	kfree(info->pseudo_palette);
-	framebuffer_release(info);
-
 	dma_free_wc(&pdev->dev, fbi->map_size, info->screen_base,
 		    fbi->map_dma);
-
 	iounmap(fbi->regs);
 	release_mem_region(res->start, resource_size(res));
+	kfree(info->pseudo_palette);
+	framebuffer_release(info);
 
 	return 0;
 }
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