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

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Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:44:12 +0100
From:	Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@...hlcke.net>
To:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, David.Woodhouse@...el.com,
	vapier.adi@...il.com, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] physmap_flash_probe() frees memory still in use

El Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:52:50AM +0900 Atsushi Nemoto ha dit:

> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:43:18 +0100, Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@...hlcke.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Oh Yes, I had missed that point.  And looking at physmap driver again,
> I found that del_mtd_partition() and del_mtd_device() are abused.
> Though these APIs are robust enough, deleting right things in right
> order would be better.
> 
> Could you test this patch?  I cannot test it until Monday.

looks good!

Tested-By: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@...hlcke.net>

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