From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, b35362@freescale.com,
dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd/nand : don't free the global data fsl_lbc_ctrl_dev->nand in fsl_elbc_chip_remove()
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:40:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1309498826.23597.200.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110630112656.3257116a@schlenkerla.am.freescale.net>
On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 11:26 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> If the NULL assignment is dropped, consider what happens if the
> fsl_elbc_nand module is removed then reinserted. On reinsertion, it
> will
> see a non-NULL fsl_lbc_ctrl_dev->nand, and will skip allocating a new
> one.
> Then you're referencing freed memory.
Oh, then this sounds like a separate bug. Removing the module should
kill everything, and re-inserging the module should have zero
dependencies on the previous states...
Anyway, if you think the original patch is OK, I can put it to my tree.
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-01 5:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-28 1:50 [PATCH 1/2] mtd/nand : don't free the global data fsl_lbc_ctrl_dev->nand in fsl_elbc_chip_remove() b35362
2011-06-28 1:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] mtd/nand : workaround for Freescale FCM to support large-page Nand chip b35362
2011-06-28 1:50 ` b35362
2011-06-28 15:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] mtd/nand : workaround for Freescale FCM to supportlarge-page " Mike Hench
2011-06-28 15:35 ` Mike Hench
2011-06-28 16:30 ` Scott Wood
2011-07-05 23:08 ` [U-Boot] " Matthew L. Creech
2011-07-05 23:13 ` Scott Wood
2011-07-06 0:04 ` Mike Hench
2011-07-08 19:10 ` Mike Hench
2011-07-08 19:17 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-29 6:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] mtd/nand : workaround for Freescale FCM to support large-page " Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-29 6:22 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-29 16:43 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-30 11:51 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-29 6:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] mtd/nand : don't free the global data fsl_lbc_ctrl_dev->nand in fsl_elbc_chip_remove() Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-29 16:45 ` Scott Wood
2011-06-30 11:53 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-30 16:26 ` Scott Wood
2011-07-01 5:40 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2011-07-01 16:14 ` Scott Wood
2011-07-06 6:46 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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