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drivers/input/evdev.c: don't kfree() a vmalloc address
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 2 Dec 2014 23:59:31 +0000 (15:59 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:35:38 +0000 (09:35 -0800)
commit92788ac1eb06e69a822de45e2a8a63fa45eb5be2
treee4cff1d7c5943d776e2a448c1fb6fade6d4139b7
parent91b57191cfd152c02ded0745250167d0263084f8
drivers/input/evdev.c: don't kfree() a vmalloc address

If kzalloc() failed and then evdev_open_device() fails, evdev_open()
will pass a vmalloc'ed pointer to kfree.

This might fix https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88401, where
there was a crash in kfree().

Reported-by: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@free.fr>
Belatedly-Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/input/evdev.c