linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: assign mtd->name in find_full_id

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Message-ID: <20140111201019.GD1992@norris-Latitude-E6410>
Date:	Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:10:19 -0800
From:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
To:	Huang Shijie <b32955@...escale.com>,
	Caizhiyong <caizhiyong@...ilicon.com>
Cc:	"linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"Wanglin (Albert)" <albert.wanglin@...ilicon.com>,
	David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand:  assign mtd->name in find_full_id_nand

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 10:19:39AM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 01:51:58AM +0000, Caizhiyong wrote:
> > From: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@...wei.com>
> > Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2013 21:19:21 +0800
> > Subject: [PATCH] mtd: nand: assign mtd->name in find_full_id_nand
> > 
> > This patch assigned the type->name to mtd->name when mtd->name is
> > NULL in function "find_full_id_nand".
> > mtd->name is NULL may cause some problem.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@...wei.com>
> Acked-by: Huang Shijie <b32955@...escale.com>

Thanks, the patch looks good. Pushed to l2-mtd.git.

Wouldn't this trigger an exception when reading
/sys/class/mtd/mtdX/name? If so, should this be marked for stable?

Brian
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