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Patch "mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: potential NULL dereference" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: potential NULL dereference

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
mtd-maps-sa1100-flash-potential-null-dereference.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From dc01a28d80a42cef08c94dfc595565aaebe46d15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:06:30 +0300
Subject: mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: potential NULL dereference

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

commit dc01a28d80a42cef08c94dfc595565aaebe46d15 upstream.

We check for NULL but then dereference "info->mtd" on the next line.

Fixes 72169755cf36 ('mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: show parent device in sysfs')
---
 drivers/mtd/maps/sa1100-flash.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/mtd/maps/sa1100-flash.c +3 -1
@@ -230,8 +230,10 @@ static struct sa_info *sa1100_setup_mtd(
 
 		info->mtd = mtd_concat_create(cdev, info->num_subdev,
 					      plat->name);
-		if (info->mtd == NULL)
+		if (info->mtd == NULL) {
 			ret = -ENXIO;
+			goto err;
+		}
 	}
 	info->mtd->dev.parent = &pdev->dev;
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/mtd-pmcmsp-flash-allocating-too-much-in-init_msp_flash.patch queue-4.4/mtd-maps-sa1100-flash-potential-null-dereference.patch