[PATCH -mm] drivers/usb/core/config.c: kzalloc(0,..)

From: Dan Kruchinin
Date: Mon May 07 2007 - 23:03:21 EST


The following patch fixes such SLUB report(when someone tries to
allocate 0 bytes):
--
May 8 00:19:15 midgard kernel: [ 21.933467] BUG: at
include/linux/slub_def.h:88 kmalloc_index()
May 8 00:19:15 midgard kernel: [ 21.933470]
[show_registers+410/736] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
May 8 00:19:15 midgard kernel: [ 21.933478]
[print_trace_warning_symbol+50/64] show_trace+0x12/0x20
May 8 00:19:15 midgard kernel: [ 21.933482] [fixup_irqs+38/192]
dump_stack+0x16/0x20
May 8 00:19:15 midgard kernel: [ 21.933485] [do_lookup+195/400]
get_slab+0x213/0x230
May 8 00:19:15 midgard kernel: [ 21.933489] [do_lookup+309/400]
__kmalloc_track_caller+0x15/0x40
May 8 00:19:15 midgard kernel: [ 21.933493] [__vunmap+25/240]
__kzalloc+0x19/0x50
May 8 00:19:15 midgard kernel: [ 21.933498] [<df05778e>]
usb_parse_configuration+0x85e/0xe70 [usbcore]
May 8 00:19:15 midgard kernel: [ 21.933520] [<df057fcb>]
usb_get_configuration+0x12b/0x450 [usbcore]
May 8 00:19:15 midgard kernel: [ 21.933535] [<df04ed87>]
usb_new_device+0x17/0x1c0 [usbcore]
May 8 00:19:15 midgard kernel: [ 21.933550] [<df05073a>]
hub_thread+0x79a/0xfd0 [usbcore]
May 8 00:19:15 midgard kernel: [ 21.933564]
[run_posix_cpu_timers+1218/2064] kthread+0x42/0x70
May 8 00:19:15 midgard kernel: [ 21.933569] [math_error+87/240]
kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
May 8 00:19:15 midgard kernel: [ 21.933572] =======================
--

The problem was in drivers/usb/core/config.c in function usb_parse_interface:
---
num_ep = num_ep_orig = alt->desc.bNumEndpoints;
...
len = sizeof(struct usb_host_endpoint) * num_ep;
alt->endpoint = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
---

num_ep can be 0, as it was in my case, so following patch makes this
situation more obvious
and clear.

--------------
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/config.c b/drivers/usb/core/config.c
index bfb3731..4db6b21 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/config.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/config.c
@@ -185,7 +185,10 @@ static int usb_parse_interface(struct device
*ddev, int cfgno,
num_ep = USB_MAXENDPOINTS;
}

- len = sizeof(struct usb_host_endpoint) * num_ep;
+ len = sizeof(struct usb_host_endpoint);
+ if (num_ep > 0)
+ len *= num_ep;
+
alt->endpoint = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!alt->endpoint)
return -ENOMEM;
---------------

Dan Kruchinin.
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