Re: [PATCH] drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Mon May 21 2001 - 19:15:50 EST

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PXWang@stanford.edu said:
> There is a bug in mtdchar.c of not freeing memory on error paths.
> databuf is allocated but not freed if copy_from_user fails. The
> addition I made was to kfree databuf before returning -EFAULT.
> Thanks!

Thankyou. I've now committed the fix to my tree and it'll be in the next
merge with Linus, which should hopefully happen quite soon.

-- dwmw2

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