From 4d523b60ef9d1953d9e12745ca0ed3e2dc98c189 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Liu Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:26:28 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] mtd: check parts pointer before using it The code has the check for parts but it called after kmemdup, kmemdup(parts, sizeof(*parts) * nr_parts,...) if (!parts) return -ENOMEM In fact, we need check parts before safely using it. and we also need check the real_parts to make sure kmemdup allocation sucessfully. Signed-off-by: Jason Liu Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy --- drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c index 09bdbac..b01993e 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c @@ -465,12 +465,13 @@ int mtd_device_parse_register(struct mtd_info *mtd, const char **types, struct mtd_partition *real_parts; err = parse_mtd_partitions(mtd, types, &real_parts, parser_data); - if (err <= 0 && nr_parts) { + if (err <= 0 && nr_parts && parts) { real_parts = kmemdup(parts, sizeof(*parts) * nr_parts, GFP_KERNEL); - err = nr_parts; - if (!parts) + if (!real_parts) err = -ENOMEM; + else + err = nr_parts; } if (err > 0) { -- 2.7.4