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From: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>
To: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Subject: [BUG] physmap_flash_probe() frees memory still in use
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
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as i reported earlier in this month
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/12/141) MTD partition names are screwed
up in 2.6.29-rcX.

commit 176bf2e0f10ecf1d20a97db3bd5bb2e6ba0b5668 deals with a memory
leak and frees the pointer array of mtd_partition after the call to
add_mtd_partitions(). the problem is that mtd_table[x]->name still
points to the freed memory.

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