Commit 20ecb499 authored Sep 24, 2011 by Guenter Roeck

hwmon: (coretemp) Avoid leaving around dangling pointer



Storing the struct temp_data pointer allocated from create_core_data()
when returning an error has the potential of leaving around a pointer
to freed memory. Reset it to NULL for error returns.

Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

parent 0eb9782a

drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -506,6 +506,7 @@ static int create_core_data(struct platform_device *pdev,

		return 0;
		exit_free:
		pdata->core_data[attr_no] = NULL;
		kfree(tdata);
		return err;
		}