mtd: ofpart: Fix incorrect NULL check in parse_ofoldpart_partitions()
authorSachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:57:13 +0000 (15:27 +0530)
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:12:39 +0000 (09:12 +0100)
The pointer returned by kzalloc should be tested for NULL
to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference later. Incorrect
pointer was being tested for NULL. Bug introduced by commit fbcf62a3
(mtd: physmap_of: move parse_obsolete_partitions to become separate
parser).
This patch fixes this bug.

Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
drivers/mtd/ofpart.c

index 64be8f0..d9127e2 100644 (file)
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static int parse_ofoldpart_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,
        nr_parts = plen / sizeof(part[0]);
 
        *pparts = kzalloc(nr_parts * sizeof(*(*pparts)), GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!pparts)
+       if (!*pparts)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
        names = of_get_property(dp, "partition-names", &plen);