Re: [PATCH 1/1] mtd: physmap_of: fix illegal dereference

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Fri Feb 01 2013 - 11:54:09 EST


On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 19:22 +0100, Stef van Os wrote:
> d68cbdd introduced a new way of getting the name of an mtd
> partion. The character pointer is not initialized, and only
> checked against NULL, not at other random garbage.
> This patch fixes the resulting panic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stef van Os <stef.van.os@xxxxxxxxxxx>

A similar fix already sits in the mtd tree:

http://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6.git/commit/7dfe4be351e81656ca1068e5d4ead235c7ba94b1

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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