Commit 76823b79 authored by Guennadi Liakhovetski's avatar Guennadi Liakhovetski Committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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V4L/DVB (13132): fix use-after-free Oops, resulting from a driver-core API change



Commit b4028437 has broken again re-use of
device objects across device_register() / device_unregister() cycles. Fix
soc-camera by nullifying the struct after device_unregister().

Signed-off-by: default avatarGuennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
parent 07bc46e6
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@@ -1160,13 +1160,15 @@ void soc_camera_host_unregister(struct soc_camera_host *ici)
		if (icd->iface == ici->nr) {
			/* The bus->remove will be called */
			device_unregister(&icd->dev);
			/* Not before device_unregister(), .remove
			 * needs parent to call ici->ops->remove() */
			icd->dev.parent = NULL;

			/* If the host module is loaded again, device_register()
			 * would complain "already initialised" */
			memset(&icd->dev.kobj, 0, sizeof(icd->dev.kobj));
			/*
			 * Not before device_unregister(), .remove
			 * needs parent to call ici->ops->remove().
			 * If the host module is loaded again, device_register()
			 * would complain "already initialised," since 2.6.32
			 * this is also needed to prevent use-after-free of the
			 * device private data.
			 */
			memset(&icd->dev, 0, sizeof(icd->dev));
		}
	}