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mtd: mtdpart: break it as soon as we parse out the partitions

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We may cause a memory leak when the @types has more then one parser.

Take the `default_mtd_part_types` for example. The default_mtd_part_types has
two parsers now: `cmdlinepart` and `ofpart`.

Assume the following case:
The kernel command line sets the partitions like:
	#gpmi-nand:20m(boot),20m(kernel),1g(rootfs),-(user)
But the devicetree file(such as arch/arm/boot/dts/imx28-evk.dts) also sets
the same partitions as the kernel command line does.

In the current code, the partitions parsed out by the `ofpart` will
overwrite the @pparts which has already set by the `cmdlinepart` parser,
and the the partitions parsed out by the `cmdlinepart` is missed.
A memory leak occurs.

So we should break the code as soon as we parse out the partitions,
In actually, this patch makes a priority order between the parsers.
If one parser has already parsed out the partitions successfully,
it's no need to use another parser anymore.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
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Huang Shijie 2012-08-18 13:07:41 -04:00 committed by David Woodhouse
parent d0788ce492
commit c51803ddba
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@ -711,6 +711,8 @@ static const char *default_mtd_part_types[] = {
* partition parsers, specified in @types. However, if @types is %NULL, then
* the default list of parsers is used. The default list contains only the
* "cmdlinepart" and "ofpart" parsers ATM.
* Note: If there are more then one parser in @types, the kernel only takes the
* partitions parsed out by the first parser.
*
* This function may return:
* o a negative error code in case of failure
@ -735,11 +737,12 @@ int parse_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *master, const char **types,
if (!parser)
continue;
ret = (*parser->parse_fn)(master, pparts, data);
put_partition_parser(parser);
if (ret > 0) {
printk(KERN_NOTICE "%d %s partitions found on MTD device %s\n",
ret, parser->name, master->name);
break;
}
put_partition_parser(parser);
}
return ret;
}