This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hinic: Avoid some over memory allocation
to the 5.18-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:
hinic-avoid-some-over-memory-allocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 3a8a7df5663a059ee981bbad67461c9ea97ee544
Author: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat May 21 08:33:01 2022 +0200
hinic: Avoid some over memory allocation
[ Upstream commit 15d221d0c345b76947911a3ac91897ffe2f1cc4e ]
'prod_idx' (atomic_t) is larger than 'shadow_idx' (u16), so some memory is
over-allocated.
Fixes: b15a9f37be2b ("net-next/hinic: Add wq")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_hw_wq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_hw_wq.c
index f7dc7d825f63..4daf6bf291ec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_hw_wq.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/huawei/hinic/hinic_hw_wq.c
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ static int alloc_wqes_shadow(struct hinic_wq *wq)
return -ENOMEM;
wq->shadow_idx = devm_kcalloc(&pdev->dev, wq->num_q_pages,
- sizeof(wq->prod_idx), GFP_KERNEL);
+ sizeof(*wq->shadow_idx), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!wq->shadow_idx)
goto err_shadow_idx;
