[U-Boot] [Patch] For bug in UBIFS function ubifs_finddir

[Stefan Roese]

Hi Rod,

On Saturday 18 June 2011 11:51:11 Rod Boyce wrote:
> Free private_data member element before freeing file structure.  This
> was causing malloc to crash.  Also remove unnecessary variable
> assigments after file structure was free'd.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rod Boyce <uboot at teamboyce.co.uk>
> ------------------------------- fs/ubifs/ubifs.c
> ------------------------------
> diff --git a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.c b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.c
> index 5a5c739..61f70b2 100644
> --- a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.c
> +++ b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.c
> @@ -360,6 +360,8 @@
>           return err;
>       }
> 
> +    if (file->private_data)
> +        kfree(file->private_data);
>       if (file)
>           free(file);
>       if (dentry)
> @@ -367,10 +369,6 @@
>       if (dir)
>           free(dir);
> 
> -    if (file->private_data)
> -        kfree(file->private_data);
> -    file->private_data = NULL;
> -    file->f_pos = 2;
>       return 0;

This patch does not apply:

Applying: For bug in UBIFS function ubifs_finddir
Using index info to reconstruct a base tree...
error: patch failed: fs/ubifs/ubifs.c:360
error: fs/ubifs/ubifs.c: patch does not apply
Did you hand edit your patch?

How did you create this patch? I recommend to use "git format-patch". And send 
it via "git send-email".

Also, please change the patch subject and add "ubifs:":

- For  bug in UBIFS function ubifs_finddir
+ ubifs: Fix bug in function ubifs_finddir

Please also take a look at this page for patch submission:

http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-Boot/Patches

Thanks.

Cheers,
Stefan

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