We don't allocate enough data for this struct. As soon as we start modifying event->event on the next lines, then we're going beyond the end of the memory we allocated. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Static checker work. Not tested. diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c index f2fb8f1..7e07433 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fence.c @@ -1018,7 +1018,7 @@ int vmw_event_fence_action_create(struct drm_file *file_priv, } - event = kzalloc(sizeof(event->event), GFP_KERNEL); + event = kzalloc(sizeof(*event), GFP_KERNEL); if (unlikely(event == NULL)) { DRM_ERROR("Failed to allocate an event.\n"); ret = -ENOMEM; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html