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: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2875fb65f8e40401c4b781ebc5002df10485f635;p=pandora-kernel.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>
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