From: Stef van Os <stef.van.os@prodrive.nl>
To: <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
wfp5p@virginia.edu, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, sr@denx.de,
plagnioj@jcrosoft.com, dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mtd: physmap_of: fix illegal dereference
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 18:10:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <510BF720.5020708@prodrive.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1359737697.2942.16.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>
On 02/01/2013 05:54 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 19:22 +0100, Stef van Os wrote:
>> d68cbdd introduced a new way of getting the name of an mtd
>> partion. The character pointer is not initialized, and only
>> checked against NULL, not at other random garbage.
>> This patch fixes the resulting panic.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stef van Os<stef.van.os@prodrive.nl>
> A similar fix already sits in the mtd tree:
>
> http://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6.git/commit/7dfe4be351e81656ca1068e5d4ead235c7ba94b1
>
Ah, sorry, I wasn't aware of this. But, as long as some fix for this
issue makes it into mainline, I'm happy :)
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From: Stef van Os <stef.van.os@prodrive.nl>
To: <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <dwmw2@infradead.org>, <wfp5p@virginia.edu>,
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, <sr@denx.de>,
<plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>, <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mtd: physmap_of: fix illegal dereference
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 18:10:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <510BF720.5020708@prodrive.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1359737697.2942.16.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>
On 02/01/2013 05:54 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 19:22 +0100, Stef van Os wrote:
>> d68cbdd introduced a new way of getting the name of an mtd
>> partion. The character pointer is not initialized, and only
>> checked against NULL, not at other random garbage.
>> This patch fixes the resulting panic.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stef van Os<stef.van.os@prodrive.nl>
> A similar fix already sits in the mtd tree:
>
> http://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6.git/commit/7dfe4be351e81656ca1068e5d4ead235c7ba94b1
>
Ah, sorry, I wasn't aware of this. But, as long as some fix for this
issue makes it into mainline, I'm happy :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-01 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-17 18:22 [PATCH 1/1] mtd: physmap_of: fix illegal dereference Stef van Os
2013-01-17 18:22 ` Stef van Os
2013-02-01 16:54 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2013-02-01 16:54 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2013-02-01 17:10 ` Stef van Os [this message]
2013-02-01 17:10 ` Stef van Os
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