Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755065Ab2JNO7l (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:59:41 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:46520 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932195Ab2JNOnZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:43:25 -0400 Message-Id: <20121014143544.357261364@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:36:51 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Huang Shijie , Artem Bityutskiy , David Woodhouse Subject: [ 078/147] mtd: mtdpart: break it as soon as we parse out the partitions In-Reply-To: <20121014143533.742627615@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 77.75.106.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2715 Lines: 71 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Huang Shijie commit c51803ddba10d80d9f246066802c6e359cf1d44c upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c index d518e4d..f8c08ec 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; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/