From: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
To: dedekind@infradead.org
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] UBI: dereference after kfree in create_vtbl
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 11:49:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <463A04A5.5030103@gmail.com> (raw)
Coverity (CID 1614) spotted new_seb being dereferenced after kfree() in
create_vtbl's write_error path.
Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>
---
vtbl.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c
index b6fd6bb..91e3619 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c
@@ -317,14 +317,13 @@ retry:
return err;
write_error:
- kfree(new_seb);
- /* May be this physical eraseblock went bad, try to pick another one */
- if (++tries <= 5) {
+ /* Maybe this physical eraseblock went bad, try to pick another one */
+ if (++tries <= 5)
err = ubi_scan_add_to_list(si, new_seb->pnum, new_seb->ec,
&si->corr);
- if (!err)
- goto retry;
- }
+ kfree(new_seb);
+ if (!err)
+ goto retry;
out_free:
ubi_free_vid_hdr(ubi, vid_hdr);
return err;
next reply other threads:[~2007-05-03 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-03 15:49 Florin Malita [this message]
2007-05-04 7:17 ` [PATCH] UBI: dereference after kfree in create_vtbl Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-04 21:42 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-04 21:42 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-04 23:22 ` Florin Malita
2007-05-04 23:22 ` Florin Malita
2007-05-05 3:55 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-05 3:55 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-05 7:55 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-05 7:55 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-05 12:26 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-05 12:26 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-05 13:18 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-05 13:18 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-05 13:48 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-05 13:48 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-05 13:59 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-05 13:59 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-05 15:00 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-05 15:00 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-05 12:09 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-05 12:09 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-05 13:32 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-05 13:32 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-05 13:48 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-05 13:48 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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