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

[Kamal Mostafa]

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-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt1.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 82604747d27ffc28a01b31889c338e07fb77e64a 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 cafdb88..919a936 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c
@@ -664,8 +664,10 @@ 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);
--
1.9.1