Re: [PATCH] stm class: Fix out of bound access from bitmap allocation

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On 07/04/2019 05:31, Sai Prakash Ranjan wrote:
On 4/5/2019 6:44 PM, David Laight wrote:
From: Sai Prakash Ranjan

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
index 93ce3aa740a9..21a5838f6e67 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int stp_master_alloc(struct stm_device *stm, unsigned int idx)
      struct stp_master *master;
      size_t size;

-    size = ALIGN(stm->data->sw_nchannels, 8) / 8;
+    size = ALIGN(stm->data->sw_nchannels, STM_MASTER_SZ) / STM_MASTER_SZ;

I'm not sure that using STP_MASTER_SZ improves readability at all.


I thought it was better to have a macro than directly specifying
sizeof(unsigned long), anyways I can change it.

Is there something that gives the size of a bitmap for 'n' items?


Not sure if there is something.

If you were to ask the question "how does the bitmap code itself know what the total size of a bitmap is?", that would quickly lead you towards BITS_TO_LONGS() ;)

And given that stp_master::chan_map is already an appropriate type, that suggests simplifying the entire calculation down to something neat and tidy like:

size = offsetof(struct stp_master, chan_map[BITS_TO_LONGS(stm->data->sw_nchannels)]);


Robin.



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