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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, computersforpeace@gmail.com,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: Fix invalid vfree()
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 15:15:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1415366123.958.331.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414367171-4657-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at>

On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 00:46 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> The logic of vfree()'ing vol->upd_buf is tied to vol->updating.
> In ubi_start_update() vol->updating is set long before vmalloc()'ing
> vol->upd_buf. If we encounter a write failure in ubi_start_update()
> before vmalloc() the UBI device release function will try to vfree()
> vol->upd_buf because vol->updating is set.
> Fix this by allocating vol->upd_buf directly after setting vol->updating.

Pushed, thanks!


      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-07 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-26 23:46 [PATCH] UBI: Fix invalid vfree() Richard Weinberger
2014-11-07 13:15 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]

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