Re: [PATCH] mailbox: mailbox-test: set tdev->signal to NULL after freeing

From	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] mailbox: mailbox-test: set tdev->signal to NULL after freeing
Date	2016-06-06 11:40 +0200
Message-ID	<rGZaN-31b-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Hi Jassi, Lee,

On 24/05/16 17:12, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> tdev->signal is not set NULL after it's freed. This will cause random
> exceptions when the stale pointer is accessed after tdev->signal is
> freed. Also, since tdev->signal allocation is skipped the next time
> it's written, this leads to continuous fault finally leading to the
> total death of the system.
>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> Cc: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>

Can you review this ?

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep

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