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authorGravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> 2007-05-08 20:33:59 -0700
committerGravatar Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> 2007-05-08 20:33:59 -0700
commitf4ebc993759dc25dc3db6b6f1a13a23df8264d4b (patch)
tree666ba193b462ac1db51d58d908665b96b18752fe
parentMerge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 (diff)
parent[CRYPTO] cryptomgr: Fix use after free (diff)
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Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: [CRYPTO] cryptomgr: Fix use after free
-rw-r--r--crypto/cryptomgr.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/crypto/cryptomgr.c b/crypto/cryptomgr.c
index 6958ea83ee44..e5fb7cca5107 100644
--- a/crypto/cryptomgr.c
+++ b/crypto/cryptomgr.c
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@
#include "internal.h"
struct cryptomgr_param {
- struct task_struct *thread;
-
struct rtattr *tb[CRYPTOA_MAX];
struct {
@@ -81,6 +79,7 @@ err:
static int cryptomgr_schedule_probe(struct crypto_larval *larval)
{
+ struct task_struct *thread;
struct cryptomgr_param *param;
const char *name = larval->alg.cra_name;
const char *p;
@@ -130,8 +129,8 @@ static int cryptomgr_schedule_probe(struct crypto_larval *larval)
memcpy(param->larval.name, larval->alg.cra_name, CRYPTO_MAX_ALG_NAME);
- param->thread = kthread_run(cryptomgr_probe, param, "cryptomgr");
- if (IS_ERR(param->thread))
+ thread = kthread_run(cryptomgr_probe, param, "cryptomgr");
+ if (IS_ERR(thread))
goto err_free_param;
return NOTIFY_STOP;