[PATCH] MTD: nandsim: BUG: Fail if overridesize is too big

Richard Genoud richard.genoud at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 08:26:26 EDT 2012


If override size is too big, the module was actually loaded instead of
failing, because retval was not set.

This lead to memory corruption with the use of the freed structs nandsim
and nand_chip.

Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c
index cf0cd31..5d881180 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c
@@ -2333,6 +2333,7 @@ static int __init ns_init_module(void)
 		uint64_t new_size = (uint64_t)nsmtd->erasesize << overridesize;
 		if (new_size >> overridesize != nsmtd->erasesize) {
 			NS_ERR("overridesize is too big\n");
+			retval = -EINVAL;
 			goto err_exit;
 		}
 		/* N.B. This relies on nand_scan not doing anything with the size before we change it */
-- 
1.7.2.5




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