linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] UBI: potential leak in ubi_scan_erase

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Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:25:57 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
To:	Florin Malita <fmalita@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBI: potential leak in ubi_scan_erase_peb

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 15:22 -0400, Florin Malita wrote:
> Coverity (1769) found the following problem: if the erase counter 
> overflow check triggers, ec_hdr is leaked.
> 
> Moving the allocation after the overflow check should take care of it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@...il.com>

Committed, thank you!

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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