This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled hinic: Avoid some over memory allocation to the 5.15-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-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4aff883b41e11f642f90095c8c56305126bebeca 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;