Re: [PATCH] drivers/mmc/card/block.c: fix potential null dereference 'idata'

From: Chris Ball
Date: Wed May 11 2011 - 00:01:37 EST


Hi,

On Mon, May 09 2011, Vladimir Motyka wrote:
> When allocation of idata failed there was a null dereference. Also avoid
> calling kfree where it is needn't.
>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c
> index 407836d..126c7f4 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/card/block.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/card/block.c
> @@ -237,24 +237,24 @@ static struct mmc_blk_ioc_data
> *mmc_blk_ioctl_copy_from_user(

Thanks, I've pushed this version of the patch to mmc-next.

(The patch you sent was corrupted by gmail; it added a line break on the
last line quoted above where there shouldn't be one. Please fix that
for next time.)

- Chris.
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