From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Sachin Kamat , Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov , Artem Bityutskiy , David Woodhouse Subject: [ 22/56] mtd: ofpart: Fix incorrect NULL check in parse_ofoldpart_partitions() Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:55:14 -0800 Message-Id: <20121130185120.536050880@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20121130185118.302752929@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20121130185118.302752929@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Sachin Kamat commit 5a6ea4af0907f995dc06df21a9c9ef764c7cd3bc upstream. 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. Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov Cc: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/mtd/ofpart.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/mtd/ofpart.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/ofpart.c @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static int parse_ofoldpart_partitions(st nr_parts = plen / sizeof(part[0]); *pparts = kzalloc(nr_parts * sizeof(*(*pparts)), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!pparts) + if (!*pparts) return -ENOMEM; names = of_get_property(dp, "partition-names", &plen);