From 2875fb65f8e40401c4b781ebc5002df10485f635 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:29:44 -0700
Subject: 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>
---
 drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'drivers/mtd/devices')

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");
 		}
 	}
-- 
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