[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "mtd: mtdpart: fix add_mtd_partitions error path" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mtd: mtdpart: fix add_mtd_partitions error path

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt21.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 21f51d73242ac7dd4665dfdd112c50e7cf2c7a14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:18:03 +0200
Subject: mtd: mtdpart: fix add_mtd_partitions error path

commit e5bae86797141e4a95e42d825f737cb36d7b8c37 upstream.

If we fail to allocate a partition structure in the middle of the partition
creation process, the already allocated partitions are never removed, which
means they are still present in the partition list and their resources are
never freed.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
index 1ca9aec141ff..822d634b9ed5 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
@@ -637,8 +637,10 @@ int add_mtd_partitions(struct mtd_info *master,

 	for (i = 0; i < nbparts; i++) {
 		slave = allocate_partition(master, parts + i, i, cur_offset);
-		if (IS_ERR(slave))
+		if (IS_ERR(slave)) {
+			del_mtd_partitions(master);
 			return PTR_ERR(slave);
+		}

 		mutex_lock(&mtd_partitions_mutex);
 		list_add(&slave->list, &mtd_partitions);