V4L/DVB: IR: ir-raw-event: null pointer dereference
The original code dereferenced ir->raw after freeing it and setting it
to NULL.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/media/IR/ir-raw-event.c b/drivers/media/IR/ir-raw-event.c
index 43094e7..8e0e1b1 100644
--- a/drivers/media/IR/ir-raw-event.c
+++ b/drivers/media/IR/ir-raw-event.c
@@ -279,9 +279,11 @@
"rc%u", (unsigned int)ir->devno);
if (IS_ERR(ir->raw->thread)) {
+ int ret = PTR_ERR(ir->raw->thread);
+
kfree(ir->raw);
ir->raw = NULL;
- return PTR_ERR(ir->raw->thread);
+ return ret;
}
mutex_lock(&ir_raw_handler_lock);