[PATCH 1/1] mtd: physmap_of: fix illegal dereference

Stef van Os stef.van.os at prodrive.nl
Fri Feb 1 12:10:56 EST 2013


On 02/01/2013 05:54 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 19:22 +0100, Stef van Os wrote:
>> d68cbdd introduced a new way of getting the name of an mtd
>> partion. The character pointer is not initialized, and only
>> checked against NULL, not at other random garbage.
>> This patch fixes the resulting panic.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stef van Os<stef.van.os at prodrive.nl>
> A similar fix already sits in the mtd tree:
>
> http://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6.git/commit/7dfe4be351e81656ca1068e5d4ead235c7ba94b1
>
Ah, sorry, I wasn't aware of this. But, as long as some fix for this 
issue makes it into mainline, I'm happy :)



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