Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2011-01-31

Re: [PATCH] wl12xx: fix use after free

From: John W. Linville <hidden>
Date: 2011-01-31 20:00:18

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:29:47AM +0100, Mathias Krause wrote:
When DEBUG_SPI is included in the debug log level wl1271_spi_reset()
will dump the already freed memory instead of the SPI buffer.

This bug was spotted by the semantic patch tool coccinelle using the
script found at scripts/coccinelle/free/kfree.cocci.

More information about semantic patching is available at
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <redacted>
Luca, I'll go ahead and apply this one directly to wireless-2.6.

John
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