From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
patches@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: ofpart: Fix incorrect NULL check in parse_ofoldpart_partitions()
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:36:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1349879778.20594.33.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348567033-5418-1-git-send-email-sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
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On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 15:27 +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote:
> The pointer returned by kzalloc should be tested for NULL
> to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference later. Incorrect
> pointer was being tested for NULL. Bug introduced by commit fbcf62a3
> (mtd: physmap_of: move parse_obsolete_partitions to become separate
> parser).
> This patch fixes this bug.
>
> Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Added
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.2+]
and pushed to l2-mtd.git, thanks!
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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-25 9:57 [PATCH] mtd: ofpart: Fix incorrect NULL check in parse_ofoldpart_partitions() Sachin Kamat
2012-09-26 10:46 ` Sachin Kamat
2012-09-26 11:11 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-10-01 18:11 ` Sachin Kamat
2012-10-10 7:51 ` Sachin Kamat
2012-10-10 14:36 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
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