Hello everybody,
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.
Cheers,
Ingo
Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
---
--- linux-2.6.23.1/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c.orig 2008-03-20 15:13:49.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.23.1/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c 2008-03-20 15:14:09.000000000 +0100
@@ -408,7 +408,6 @@
if (token[1]) {
ret = parse_num(&erase_size, token[1]);
if (ret) {
- kfree(name);
parse_err("illegal erase size");
}
}
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