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Subject[PATCH 24/24] w1/masters: fix dangling pointers
Fix I2C-drivers which missed setting clientdata to NULL before freeing the
structure it points to. Also fix drivers which do this _after_ the structure
was freed already.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
---

Found using coccinelle, then reviewed. Full patchset is available via
kernel-janitors, linux-i2c, and LKML.
---
drivers/w1/masters/ds2482.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/w1/masters/ds2482.c b/drivers/w1/masters/ds2482.c
index e5f7441..b92b1c6 100644
--- a/drivers/w1/masters/ds2482.c
+++ b/drivers/w1/masters/ds2482.c
@@ -484,6 +484,7 @@ exit_w1_remove:
w1_remove_master_device(&data->w1_ch[idx].w1_bm);
}
exit_free:
+ i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
kfree(data);
exit:
return err;
@@ -501,6 +502,7 @@ static int ds2482_remove(struct i2c_client *client)
}

/* Free the memory */
+ i2c_set_clientdata(client, NULL);
kfree(data);
return 0;
}
--
1.7.0


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