From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756757Ab1HXKr7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:47:59 -0400 Received: from ch1ehsobe004.messaging.microsoft.com ([216.32.181.184]:36332 "EHLO ch1outboundpool.messaging.microsoft.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752147Ab1HXKr4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:47:56 -0400 X-SpamScore: 0 X-BigFish: VS0(zzzz1202hzz8275bh8275dhz2dh87h2a8h668h839h62h) X-Spam-TCS-SCL: 1:0 X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:70.37.183.190;KIP:(null);UIP:(null);IPVD:NLI;H:mail.freescale.net;RD:none;EFVD:NLI X-FB-DOMAIN-IP-MATCH: fail From: Jason Liu To: CC: , , , , Subject: [PATCH] mtd: check parts pointer before using it Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:53:01 +0800 Message-ID: <1314183181-4197-1-git-send-email-jason.hui@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-OriginatorOrg: sigmatel.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The code has the check for parts but it called after kmemdup, kmemdup(parts, sizeof(*parts) * nr_parts,...) if (!parts) return -ENOMEM In fact, we need check parts before safely using it. Signed-off-by: Jason Liu Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov Cc: Artem Bityutskiy --- This patch is based on git://git.infradead.org/users/dedekind/l2-mtd-2.6.git --- drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c index 09bdbac..ce59ff5 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c @@ -465,12 +465,10 @@ int mtd_device_parse_register(struct mtd_info *mtd, const char **types, struct mtd_partition *real_parts; err = parse_mtd_partitions(mtd, types, &real_parts, parser_data); - if (err <= 0 && nr_parts) { + if (err <= 0 && nr_parts && !parts) { real_parts = kmemdup(parts, sizeof(*parts) * nr_parts, GFP_KERNEL); err = nr_parts; - if (!parts) - err = -ENOMEM; } if (err > 0) { -- 1.7.4.1