[PATCH 1/2] mtd: parsers: qcom: Fix kernel panic on skipped partition

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Sun Jan 23 07:32:38 PST 2022


miquel.raynal at bootlin.com wrote on Sun, 23 Jan 2022 16:23:16 +0100:

> On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 03:22:10 UTC, Ansuel Smith wrote:
> > In the event of a skipped partition (case when the entry name is empty)
> > the kernel panics in the cleanup function as the name entry is NULL.
> > Rework the parser logic by first checking the real partition number and
> > then allocate the space and set the data for the valid partitions.
> > 
> > The logic was also fundamentally wrong as with a skipped partition, the
> > parts number returned was incorrect by not decreasing it for the skipped
> > partitions.
> > 
> > Fixes: 803eb12 ("mtd: parsers: Add Qcom SMEM parser")
> > Signed-off-by: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth at gmail.com>  
> 
> Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Both patches applied on mtd/fixes, actually.



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