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UBI: fix a horrible memory deallocation bug
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UBI was mistakingly using 'kfree()' instead of 'kmem_cache_free()' when
freeing "attach eraseblock" structures in vtbl.c. Thankfully, this happened
only when we were doing auto-format, so many systems were unaffected. However,
there are still many users affected.

It is strange, but the system did not crash and nothing bad happened when
the SLUB memory allocator was used. However, in case of SLOB we observed an
crash right away.

This problem was introduced in 2.6.39 by commit
"6c1e875 UBI: add slab cache for ubi_scan_leb objects"

A note for stable trees:
  Because variable were renamed, this won't cleanly apply to older kernels.
  Changing names like this should help:
	1. ai -> si
	2. aeb_slab_cache -> seb_slab_cache
	3. new_aeb -> new_seb

Reported-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [v2.6.39+]
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy committed Sep 4, 2012
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c
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Expand Up @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static int create_vtbl(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_attach_info *ai,
* of this LEB as it will be deleted and freed in 'ubi_add_to_av()'.
*/
err = ubi_add_to_av(ubi, ai, new_aeb->pnum, new_aeb->ec, vid_hdr, 0);
kfree(new_aeb);
kmem_cache_free(ai->aeb_slab_cache, new_aeb);
ubi_free_vid_hdr(ubi, vid_hdr);
return err;

Expand All @@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ static int create_vtbl(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_attach_info *ai,
list_add(&new_aeb->u.list, &ai->erase);
goto retry;
}
kfree(new_aeb);
kmem_cache_free(ai->aeb_slab_cache, new_aeb);
out_free:
ubi_free_vid_hdr(ubi, vid_hdr);
return err;
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