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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2008-09-06 01:10:03 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-10-08 20:22:49 -0700
commit4fa9a2f9e5ad0171b890ecea3433276e66bc8353 (patch)
tree80caf92ae772201e7468dd35f99cfd9ec395c499 /drivers
parente2bbadddf9ff42e79cb1cba9f1046d9c581d0177 (diff)
drivers/mmc/card/block.c: fix refcount leak in mmc_block_open()
commit 70bb08962ea9bd50797ae9f16b2493f5f7c65053 upstream mmc_block_open() increments md->usage although it returns with -EROFS when default mounting a MMC/SD card with write protect switch on. This reference counting bug prevents /dev/mmcblkX from being released on card removal, and situation worsen with reinsertion until the minor number range runs out. Reported-by: <sasin@solomon-systech.com> Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mmc/card/block.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c
index f9ad960d7c1a..55a104dd8347 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c
@@ -103,8 +103,10 @@ static int mmc_blk_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
check_disk_change(inode->i_bdev);
ret = 0;
- if ((filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && md->read_only)
+ if ((filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) && md->read_only) {
+ mmc_blk_put(md);
ret = -EROFS;
+ }
}
return ret;