This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled IB/rdmavt: Fix sizeof mismatch to the 5.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ib-rdmavt-fix-sizeof-mismatch.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1606666337b69e53928aa063db1316d7a11404a4 Author: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Oct 8 10:52:04 2020 +0100 IB/rdmavt: Fix sizeof mismatch [ Upstream commit 8e71f694e0c819db39af2336f16eb9689f1ae53f ] An incorrect sizeof is being used, struct rvt_ibport ** is not correct, it should be struct rvt_ibport *. Note that since ** is the same size as * this is not causing any issues. Improve this fix by using sizeof(*rdi->ports) as this allows us to not even reference the type of the pointer. Also remove line breaks as the entire statement can fit on one line. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201008095204.82683-1-colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Addresses-Coverity: ("Sizeof not portable (SIZEOF_MISMATCH)") Fixes: ff6acd69518e ("IB/rdmavt: Add device structure allocation") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/vt.c b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/vt.c index f904bb34477ae..2d534c450f3c8 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/vt.c @@ -95,9 +95,7 @@ struct rvt_dev_info *rvt_alloc_device(size_t size, int nports) if (!rdi) return rdi; - rdi->ports = kcalloc(nports, - sizeof(struct rvt_ibport **), - GFP_KERNEL); + rdi->ports = kcalloc(nports, sizeof(*rdi->ports), GFP_KERNEL); if (!rdi->ports) ib_dealloc_device(&rdi->ibdev);