linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] mtd: parsers: afs: Fix freeing the part name memory in failure

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Date:   Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:17:09 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>
Cc:     Miquèl Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh R <vigneshr@...com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, MSM <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] mtd: parsers: afs: Fix freeing the part name
 memory in failure

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 6:49 PM Manivannan Sadhasivam
<manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org> wrote:

> In the case of failure while parsing the partitions, the iterator should
> be pre decremented by one before starting to free the memory allocated
> by kstrdup(). Because in the failure case, kstrdup() will not succeed
> and thus no memory will be allocated for the current iteration.
>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> Fixes: 1fca1f6abb38 ("mtd: afs: simplify partition parsing")
> Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>

Good find!
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij