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authorHuang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>2012-08-18 13:07:41 -0400
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2012-09-29 15:06:13 +0100
commitc51803ddba10d80d9f246066802c6e359cf1d44c (patch)
treeed373709295c8213c7b7662f6e8526e48b574ca0 /drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
parentd0788ce4924758249c9552c91cc33024d3434419 (diff)
mtd: mtdpart: break it as soon as we parse out the partitions
We may cause a memory leak when the @types has more then one parser. Take the `default_mtd_part_types` for example. The default_mtd_part_types has two parsers now: `cmdlinepart` and `ofpart`. Assume the following case: The kernel command line sets the partitions like: #gpmi-nand:20m(boot),20m(kernel),1g(rootfs),-(user) But the devicetree file(such as arch/arm/boot/dts/imx28-evk.dts) also sets the same partitions as the kernel command line does. In the current code, the partitions parsed out by the `ofpart` will overwrite the @pparts which has already set by the `cmdlinepart` parser, and the the partitions parsed out by the `cmdlinepart` is missed. A memory leak occurs. So we should break the code as soon as we parse out the partitions, In actually, this patch makes a priority order between the parsers. If one parser has already parsed out the partitions successfully, it's no need to use another parser anymore. Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
index d518e4db8a0b..f8c08ec65feb 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
@@ -711,6 +711,8 @@ static const char *default_mtd_part_types[] = {
* partition parsers, specified in @types. However, if @types is %NULL, then
* the default list of parsers is used. The default list contains only the
* "cmdlinepart" and "ofpart" parsers ATM.
+ * Note: If there are more then one parser in @types, the kernel only takes the
+ * partitions parsed out by the first parser.
*
* This function may return:
* o a negative error code in case of failure
@@ -735,11 +737,12 @@ int parse_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *master, const char **types,
if (!parser)
continue;
ret = (*parser->parse_fn)(master, pparts, data);
+ put_partition_parser(parser);
if (ret > 0) {
printk(KERN_NOTICE "%d %s partitions found on MTD device %s\n",
ret, parser->name, master->name);
+ break;
}
- put_partition_parser(parser);
}
return ret;
}