This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mtd: pmcmsp-flash: Allocating too much in init_msp_flash()
to the 4.7-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:
mtd-pmcmsp-flash-allocating-too-much-in-init_msp_flash.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 79ad07d45743721010e766e65dc004ad249bd429 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:44:56 +0300
Subject: mtd: pmcmsp-flash: Allocating too much in init_msp_flash()
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 79ad07d45743721010e766e65dc004ad249bd429 upstream.
There is a cut and paste issue here. The bug is that we are allocating
more memory than necessary for msp_maps. We should be allocating enough
space for a map_info struct (144 bytes) but we instead allocate enough
for an mtd_info struct (1840 bytes). It's a small waste.
The other part of this is not harmful but when we allocated msp_flash
then we allocated enough space fro a map_info pointer instead of an
mtd_info pointer. But since pointers are the same size it works out
fine.
Anyway, I decided to clean up all three allocations a bit to make them
a bit more consistent and clear.
Fixes: 68aa0fa87f6d ('[MTD] PMC MSP71xx flash/rootfs mappings')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mtd/maps/pmcmsp-flash.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/mtd/maps/pmcmsp-flash.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/pmcmsp-flash.c
@@ -75,15 +75,15 @@ static int __init init_msp_flash(void)
printk(KERN_NOTICE "Found %d PMC flash devices\n", fcnt);
- msp_flash = kmalloc(fcnt * sizeof(struct map_info *), GFP_KERNEL);
+ msp_flash = kcalloc(fcnt, sizeof(*msp_flash), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!msp_flash)
return -ENOMEM;
- msp_parts = kmalloc(fcnt * sizeof(struct mtd_partition *), GFP_KERNEL);
+ msp_parts = kcalloc(fcnt, sizeof(*msp_parts), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!msp_parts)
goto free_msp_flash;
- msp_maps = kcalloc(fcnt, sizeof(struct mtd_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+ msp_maps = kcalloc(fcnt, sizeof(*msp_maps), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!msp_maps)
goto free_msp_parts;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.7/mtd-pmcmsp-flash-allocating-too-much-in-init_msp_flash.patch
queue-4.7/mtd-maps-sa1100-flash-potential-null-dereference.patch
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