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Re: [PATCH] nvmem: core: fix error path in nvmem_add_cells()

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On Wed, Feb 17 2016, Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> wrote:

>>   err:
>> -	while (--i)
>> +	while (i--)
>>   		nvmem_cell_drop(cells[i]);
> No, this will not work.
>
> 3 issues,
>
> 1> If we enter this err path from nvmem_cell_info_to_nvmem_cell()
> failures, you would be accessing already freed cells[i].
>
> 2> accessing un-allocated cells[i].
>
> 3> you would be trying to drop cells which are not in the list.
>
>
> This is what you need here to fix it correctly.
>
> while (--i >= 0)
>

Sigh. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/146058/focus=2149595

TL;DR: They're equivalent.

Rasmus

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Re: [PATCH] nvmem: core: fix error path in nvmem_add_cells() Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> - 2016-02-17 11:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] nvmem: core: fix error path in nvmem_add_cells() Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> - 2016-02-18 06:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] nvmem: core: fix error path in nvmem_add_cells() Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> - 2016-02-18 10:10 +0100

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