From: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:29:44 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: mtd: memory corruption in block2mtd.c
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc7~21
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2875fb65f8e40401c4b781ebc5002df10485f635;p=linux.git

mtd: memory corruption in block2mtd.c

The block2mtd driver (drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c) will kfree an on-stack
pointer when handling an invalid argument line (e.g.
block2mtd=/dev/loop0,xxx).

The kfree was added some time ago when "name" was dynamically allocated.

Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c
index eeaaa9dce6ef..ad1880c67518 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c
@@ -408,7 +408,6 @@ static int block2mtd_setup2(const char *val)
 	if (token[1]) {
 		ret = parse_num(&erase_size, token[1]);
 		if (ret) {
-			kfree(name);
 			parse_err("illegal erase size");
 		}
 	}