[PATCH 0/2] mtd: nandsim: fix error handling

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 14:59:17 PDT 2015


On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 08:45:11AM +0000, Sheng Yong wrote:
> These 2 patches fix error handling when nandsim initialization fails.
> 
> In alloc_device(), if creating slab memory fails, free_device() will try
> to destroy the slab memory without checking if it exists.  PATCH 1 fixes
> it.
> 
> If something goes wrong in init_nandsim(), it calls free_device() before
> returning. However, the caller of init_nandsim() - ns_init_module() - also
> does the cleanup by calling free_nandsim(). This causes double free. PATCH
> 2 fixes it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sheng
> 
> Sheng Yong (2):
>   mtd: nandsim: fix free of NULL pointer
>   mtd: nandsim: fix double free
> 
>  drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c | 22 +++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

This series doesn't apply cleanly to -next. Please rebase on either
linux-next.git or l2-mtd.git:

http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/source.html

Thanks,
Brian



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