3.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> commit 92788ac1eb06e69a822de45e2a8a63fa45eb5be2 upstream. If kzalloc() failed and then evdev_open_device() fails, evdev_open() will pass a vmalloc'ed pointer to kfree. This might fix https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88401, where there was a crash in kfree(). Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christ...@free.fr> Belatedly-Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> Cc: Henrik Rydberg <rydb...@euromail.se> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/input/evdev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/input/evdev.c +++ b/drivers/input/evdev.c @@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ static int evdev_open(struct inode *inod err_free_client: evdev_detach_client(evdev, client); - kfree(client); + kvfree(client); return error; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
