[patch] drm/exynos: potential use after free in exynos_drm_open()

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Tue Jan 21 08:35:56 EST 2014


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:43:55PM +0100, walter harms wrote:
> 
> i have just noticed: The function already exits
> 
> 194 static void exynos_drm_postclose(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_file *file)
> 195 {
> 196         if (!file->driver_priv)
> 197                 return;
> 198
> 199         kfree(file->driver_priv);
> 200         file->driver_priv = NULL;
> 201 }

The function is different in the current code.  I glanced through
drm_open_helper() and I don't see that file->driver_priv to NULL is
needed anyway...

regards,
dan carpenter




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