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[3.13.y-ckt,stable] Patch "UBI: Fix double free after do_sync_erase()" has been added to staging queue

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Kamal Mostafa Jan. 28, 2015, 10:19 p.m. UTC 
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    UBI: Fix double free after do_sync_erase()

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt15.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From 6b8d849d5b9a7a5597dd07efb9fa308ef6ae4ce6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 16:47:49 +0100
Subject: UBI: Fix double free after do_sync_erase()

commit aa5ad3b6eb8feb2399a5d26c8fb0060561bb9534 upstream.

If the erase worker is unable to erase a PEB it will
free the ubi_wl_entry itself.
The failing ubi_wl_entry must not free()'d again after
do_sync_erase() returns.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c
index 02317c1..68b924e 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c
@@ -1205,7 +1205,6 @@  static int wear_leveling_worker(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_work *wrk,

 	err = do_sync_erase(ubi, e1, vol_id, lnum, 0);
 	if (err) {
-		kmem_cache_free(ubi_wl_entry_slab, e1);
 		if (e2)
 			kmem_cache_free(ubi_wl_entry_slab, e2);
 		goto out_ro;
@@ -1219,10 +1218,8 @@  static int wear_leveling_worker(struct ubi_device *ubi, struct ubi_work *wrk,
 		dbg_wl("PEB %d (LEB %d:%d) was put meanwhile, erase",
 		       e2->pnum, vol_id, lnum);
 		err = do_sync_erase(ubi, e2, vol_id, lnum, 0);
-		if (err) {
-			kmem_cache_free(ubi_wl_entry_slab, e2);
+		if (err)
 			goto out_ro;
-		}
 	}

 	dbg_wl("done");
@@ -1258,10 +1255,9 @@  out_not_moved:

 	ubi_free_vid_hdr(ubi, vid_hdr);
 	err = do_sync_erase(ubi, e2, vol_id, lnum, torture);
-	if (err) {
-		kmem_cache_free(ubi_wl_entry_slab, e2);
+	if (err)
 		goto out_ro;
-	}
+
 	mutex_unlock(&ubi->move_mutex);
 	return 0;