Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1, xen fix

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Subject: xen: fix process_msg() use-after-kfree
From: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

fix an obvious use-after-kfree bug in Xen.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
+++ linux/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
@@ -782,8 +782,8 @@ static int process_msg(void)
 		msg->u.watch.vec = split(body, msg->hdr.len,
 					 &msg->u.watch.vec_size);
 		if (IS_ERR(msg->u.watch.vec)) {
-			kfree(msg);
 			err = PTR_ERR(msg->u.watch.vec);
+			kfree(msg);
 			goto out;
 		}
 
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