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[PATCH] [media] hackrf: moving pointer reference before kfree

From Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH] [media] hackrf: moving pointer reference before kfree
Date 2015-11-06 18:00 +0100
Message-ID <qrSwN-71N-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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accessing a pointer after free could possible lead to segmentation
fault, hence correcting it

Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c b/drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c
index e05bfec..faf3670 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c
@@ -1528,9 +1528,9 @@ err_v4l2_ctrl_handler_free_tx:
 err_v4l2_ctrl_handler_free_rx:
 	v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(&dev->rx_ctrl_handler);
 err_kfree:
+	dev_dbg(dev->dev, "failed=%d\n", ret);
 	kfree(dev);
 err:
-	dev_dbg(dev->dev, "failed=%d\n", ret);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
1.9.1

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