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mtd: memory corruption in block2mtd.c
authorIngo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:40:04 +0000 (02:40 +0000)
committerChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:53:18 +0000 (18:53 -0700)
commita98ac15765353742ddff62e5ee1e46874742e1f1
treee103547f8d028b9b82708bb996f9fc8f482a1c38
parent05c65923c9ca3052b110281099543bdd35d385af
mtd: memory corruption in block2mtd.c

upstream commit: 2875fb65f8e40401c4b781ebc5002df10485f635

The block2mtd driver (drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c) will kfree an on-stack
pointer when handling an invalid argument line (e.g.
block2mtd=/dev/loop0,xxx).

The kfree was added some time ago when "name" was dynamically allocated.

Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c