On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 11:42:14PM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
> Memory for zram->disk object may have already been freed after returning
> from destroy_device(zram), then it's unsafe for zram_reset_device(zram)
> to access zram->disk again.
>
> Fix it by holding an extra reference to zram->disk before calling
> destroy_device(zram).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> index e34e3fe..ee6b67d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
> @@ -727,8 +727,10 @@ static void __exit zram_exit(void)
> for (i = 0; i < num_devices; i++) {
> zram = &zram_devices[i];
>
> + get_disk(zram->disk);
> destroy_device(zram);
> zram_reset_device(zram);
> + put_disk(zram->disk);
Can't we simple reverse calling order of above two functions?
zram_reset_device(zram);
destroy_device(zram);
--
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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