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From: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: mtdpart: fix add_mtd_partitions error path
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:18:03PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> If we fail to allocate a partition structure in the middle of the partition
> creation process, the already allocated partitions are never removed, which
> means they are still present in the partition list and their resources are
> never freed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Pushed to l2-mtd.git, thanks