This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: potential NULL dereference
to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mtd-maps-sa1100-flash-potential-null-dereference.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From dc01a28d80a42cef08c94dfc595565aaebe46d15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:06:30 +0300
Subject: mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: potential NULL dereference
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit dc01a28d80a42cef08c94dfc595565aaebe46d15 upstream.
We check for NULL but then dereference "info->mtd" on the next line.
Fixes: 72169755cf36 ('mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: show parent device in sysfs')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mtd/maps/sa1100-flash.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/mtd/maps/sa1100-flash.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/sa1100-flash.c
@@ -230,8 +230,10 @@ static struct sa_info *sa1100_setup_mtd(
info->mtd = mtd_concat_create(cdev, info->num_subdev,
plat->name);
- if (info->mtd == NULL)
+ if (info->mtd == NULL) {
ret = -ENXIO;
+ goto err;
+ }
}
info->mtd->dev.parent = &pdev->dev;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.7/mtd-pmcmsp-flash-allocating-too-much-in-init_msp_flash.patch
queue-4.7/mtd-maps-sa1100-flash-potential-null-dereference.patch
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