From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:34763 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751445AbcBMXDM (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Feb 2016 18:03:12 -0500 Subject: Patch "mtd: mtdpart: fix add_mtd_partitions error path" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree To: boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com, computersforpeace@gmail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 15:03:11 -0800 Message-ID: <145540459115086@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mtd: mtdpart: fix add_mtd_partitions error path to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mtd-mtdpart-fix-add_mtd_partitions-error-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From e5bae86797141e4a95e42d825f737cb36d7b8c37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Boris BREZILLON Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:18:03 +0200 Subject: mtd: mtdpart: fix add_mtd_partitions error path From: Boris BREZILLON commit e5bae86797141e4a95e42d825f737cb36d7b8c37 upstream. If we fail to allocate a partition structure in the middle of the partition creation process, the already allocated partitions are never removed, which means they are still present in the partition list and their resources are never freed. Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon Signed-off-by: Brian Norris Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c @@ -664,8 +664,10 @@ int add_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info * for (i = 0; i < nbparts; i++) { slave = allocate_partition(master, parts + i, i, cur_offset); - if (IS_ERR(slave)) + if (IS_ERR(slave)) { + del_mtd_partitions(master); return PTR_ERR(slave); + } mutex_lock(&mtd_partitions_mutex); list_add(&slave->list, &mtd_partitions); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com are queue-4.3/mtd-mtdpart-fix-add_mtd_partitions-error-path.patch queue-4.3/mtd-nand-fix-shutdown-reboot-for-multi-chip-systems.patch