From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: bigeasy@linutronix.de, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, richard@nod.at
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "mtd: ubi: don't leak e if schedule_erase() fails" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 15:03:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1455404592143168@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mtd: ubi: don't leak e if schedule_erase() fails
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-ubi-don-t-leak-e-if-schedule_erase-fails.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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From 6b238de189f69dc77d660d4cce62eed15547f4c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 21:23:49 +0100
Subject: mtd: ubi: don't leak e if schedule_erase() fails
From: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
commit 6b238de189f69dc77d660d4cce62eed15547f4c3 upstream.
If __erase_worker() fails to erase the EB and schedule_erase() fails as
well to do anything about it then we go RO. But that is not a reason to
leak the e argument here. Therefore clean up e.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c
@@ -1060,6 +1060,7 @@ static int __erase_worker(struct ubi_dev
/* Re-schedule the LEB for erasure */
err1 = schedule_erase(ubi, e, vol_id, lnum, 0);
if (err1) {
+ wl_entry_destroy(ubi, e);
err = err1;
goto out_ro;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bigeasy@linutronix.de are
queue-4.3/mtd-ubi-don-t-leak-e-if-schedule_erase-fails.patch
queue-4.3/mtd-ubi-fixup-error-correction-in-do_sync_erase.patch
queue-4.3/pci-host-mark-pcie-pci-msi-irq-cascade-handlers-as-irqf_no_thread.patch
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