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From: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:58:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] cdev: cdev_put oops

While fixing an oops in the st driver in a dirty release path, I
encountered an oops in cdev_put for cdevs allocated using cdev_alloc.  If
cdev_del is called when the cdev kobject still has an open user, when the
last cdev_put is called, the cdev_put will call kobject_put, which will end
up ultimately releasing the cdev in cdev_dynamic_release.  Patch fixes the
oops by preventing cdev_put from accessing freed memory.

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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