Re: possible over-allocation in target_fabric_make_lun

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On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:43:51AM -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
 
 > On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 21:13 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > Does the patch below make sense ?
 > > 
 > > I noticed coverity complaining this looked odd that we were allocating some 336 longs when
 > > target_stat_setup_port_default_groups seems to write just 4 pointers.
 > > 
 > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 > > 
 > > diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_fabric_configfs.c b/drivers/target/target_core_fabric_configfs.c
 > > index dae2ad6a669e..7de9f0475d05 100644
 > > --- a/drivers/target/target_core_fabric_configfs.c
 > > +++ b/drivers/target/target_core_fabric_configfs.c
 > > @@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ static struct config_group *target_fabric_make_lun(
 > >  	lun_cg->default_groups[1] = NULL;
 > >  
 > >  	port_stat_grp = &lun->port_stat_grps.stat_group;
 > > -	port_stat_grp->default_groups =  kzalloc(sizeof(struct config_group) * 3,
 > > +	port_stat_grp->default_groups =  kzalloc(sizeof(struct config_group *) * 4,
 > >  				GFP_KERNEL);
 > >  	if (!port_stat_grp->default_groups) {
 > >  		pr_err("Unable to allocate port_stat_grp->default_groups\n");
 > 
 > So a patch for this is currently queued for v3.14-rc1 code:
 > 
 > target: Fix sizeof in kmalloc for some default_groups arrays
 > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=ab6dae8236767f9815bb00c29a56d045e33cd470
 > 
 > Regardless, thanks for the extra heads up.

There's a bunch of other bugs that coverity found in target/
If you (or anyone else) wants to sign up at http://scan.coverity.com
I can approve your access.  Having someone aware of what's queued
looking over them is going to save a lot of duplicated work.

thanks,

	Dave

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