[Skiboot] [PATCH] external/pflash: Perform the correct cleanup

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Nov 11 15:24:51 AEDT 2016


Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com> writes:
> If the -F flag is used then pflash uses a regular file as the flash.
>
> On cleanup pflash fails to tell arch_flash_close() if it had passed a
> filename to arch_flash_init() as such arch_flash_close() assumes that
> it needs to close the actual flash structure and not simply a file
> descriptor leading to a NULL dereference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com>
> ---
> Note: This fix is correct but I'm not particularly fond of it. A
> better solution is to refactor and stop relying on atexit() to perform
> cleanup after the use of exit(). This cleanup would also benifit
> debugging, this work and tests to avoid this situation in future is in
> my work queue.

Cool. I'll leave you to refactor it, but merge this now to master (as of
02a628a37982ebcc00f050d2a6a73aa6247718f2 ) so that it makse it into 5.4.0

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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