[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] mtdparts: fix write through NULL pointer

Stefano Babic
2010-04-28T11:12:22Z

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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