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From: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>
To: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG] physmap_flash_probe() frees memory still in use
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:43:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090130134317.GV9390@traven> (raw)

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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Matthias Kaehlcke
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             reply	other threads:[~2009-01-30 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-30 13:43 Matthias Kaehlcke [this message]
2009-01-30 15:52 ` [BUG] physmap_flash_probe() frees memory still in use Atsushi Nemoto
2009-01-30 16:44   ` Matthias Kaehlcke

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