linux-kernel - [BUG] physmap_flash_probe() frees memory still in use

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Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:43:18 +0100
From:	Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@...hlcke.net>
To:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@...el.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG] physmap_flash_probe() frees memory still in use

as i reported earlier in this month
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/12/141) MTD partition names are screwed
up in 2.6.29-rcX.

commit 176bf2e0f10ecf1d20a97db3bd5bb2e6ba0b5668 deals with a memory
leak and frees the pointer array of mtd_partition after the call to
add_mtd_partitions(). the problem is that mtd_table[x]->name still
points to the freed memory.

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