linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ubi: fastmap: Do not free 'ai' in 'scan

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:20:35 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
Cc:	Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	<Heinz.Egger@...utronix.de>, thomas.wucher@...utronix.de,
	tglx@...utronix.de, tim.bird@...sony.com, Marius.Mazarel@...l.ro,
	nyoushchenko@...sta.com, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubi: fastmap: Do not free 'ai' in 'scan_all()'

Am Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:45:46 +0300
schrieb Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>:

> From: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
> 
> Do not call 'destroy_ai(ai)' at error handling of 'scan_all', since:
> - 'ai' is allocated in 'ubi_attach' (the caller of scan_all) and
>   provided as an argument. It's not scan_all's responsibility to free
> it
> - It is not consistent with scan_all's sister function
>   'ubi_attach_fastmap()' which does not free the given 'ai'
> - It will cause a double free as 'ubi_attach' (the caller of scan_all)
>   already destroys 'ai' in case of an error
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
> ---

Applied!

Thanks,
//richard
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