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mtd: ofpart: Fix incorrect NULL check in parse_ofoldpart_partitions()
authorSachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:57:13 +0000 (15:27 +0530)
committerArtem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:28:31 +0000 (13:28 +0300)
The pointer returned by kzalloc should be tested for NULL
to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference later. Incorrect
pointer was being tested for NULL. Bug introduced by commit fbcf62a3
(mtd: physmap_of: move parse_obsolete_partitions to become separate
parser).
This patch fixes this bug.

Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.2+]
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
drivers/mtd/ofpart.c

index 64be8f0848b075cdccb647309ff88d12b3fa547d..d9127e2ed808eab6ddfe5835c68cfa88ef490cf0 100644 (file)
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static int parse_ofoldpart_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
        nr_parts = plen / sizeof(part[0]);
 
        *pparts = kzalloc(nr_parts * sizeof(*(*pparts)), GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!pparts)
+       if (!*pparts)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
        names = of_get_property(dp, "partition-names", &plen);