Re: [PATCH] mtd: physmap_of: fix cmdline partition method w/o linux,mtd-name

[Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>]

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I pinged dwmw2 about this already. This is his call to merge the driver.
I will ping him again.

On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 11:05 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi linux-mtd, Artem, David,
> 
> Ping?
> 
> It's been a month, and this is a simple uninitialized pointer dereference bug 
> fix.
> 
> baruch
> 
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 01:10:50PM +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > Commit d68cbdd4fb (mtd: physmap_of: allow to specify the mtd name for retro
> > compatiblity) broke cmdline partitioning using dev_name() in the kernel command
> > line.  of_property_read_string() does not touch mtd_name when linux,mtd-name is
> > not present in the device tree, which causes map.name to be set to a random
> > value.  Fix this by initializing mtd_name to NULL.
> > 
> > Cc: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj-sclMFOaUSTBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch-NswTu9S1W3P6gbPvEgmw2w@public.gmane.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/maps/physmap_of.c |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap_of.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap_of.c
> > index 37cdc20..6fb2bd8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap_of.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/physmap_of.c
> > @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ static int of_flash_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
> >  	resource_size_t res_size;
> >  	struct mtd_part_parser_data ppdata;
> >  	bool map_indirect;
> > -	const char *mtd_name;
> > +	const char *mtd_name = NULL;
> >  
> >  	match = of_match_device(of_flash_match, &dev->dev);
> >  	if (!match)
> 

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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