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From: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] mtdparts: fix write through NULL pointer
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:12:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BD81816.2050601@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1272445240-6147-1-git-send-email-wd@denx.de>

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> The "mtdparts add" command wrote through a NULL pointer - on many
> systems this went unnoticed (PowerPC has writable RAM there, some ARM
> systems have ROM where a write has no effect), but on arm1136
> (i.MX31) it crashed the system.
> 
> Add appropriate checks.
> 

Hi Wolfgang,

I have already sent a patch fixing this issue,

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-April/070347.html

However, I preferred (easier way) to fix the calling function as the
device_parse(). I do not know if Stefan has already merged it.

Stefano

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-28 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-28  9:00 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] mtdparts: fix write through NULL pointer Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-28  9:00 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] mtdparts: get rid of custom DEBUG macro, use debug() Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-28 11:12 ` Stefano Babic [this message]
2010-04-28 11:30   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] mtdparts: fix write through NULL pointer Stefan Roese
2010-04-30 22:39   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-05-01 11:49     ` Stefano Babic

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