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SubjectRe: [patch] irqchip/irq-crossbar: not allocating enough memory
On Thursday 03 April 2014 12:51 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We are allocating the size of a pointer and not the size of the data.
> This will lead to memory corruption.
>
> There isn't actually a "cb_device" struct, btw. The code is only able
> to compile because GCC knows that all pointers are the same size.
>
> Fixes: 96ca848ef7ea ('DRIVERS: IRQCHIP: CROSSBAR: Add support for Crossbar IP')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c
> index fc817d2..3d15d16 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c
> @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static int __init crossbar_of_init(struct device_node *node)
> int i, size, max, reserved = 0, entry;
> const __be32 *irqsr;
>
> - cb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cb_device *), GFP_KERNEL);
> + cb = kzalloc(sizeof(*cb), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> if (!cb)
> return -ENOMEM;
Yes. correct. Thanks for the catch.

Acked-by: Sricharan R <r.sricharan@ti.com>


Regards,
Sricharan


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