Re: [PATCH v3] usbip: dynamically allocate idev by nports found in sysfs

From: Shuah Khan
Date: Wed May 23 2018 - 11:52:03 EST


On 05/23/2018 03:22 AM, Michael Grzeschik wrote:
> As the amount of available ports varies by the kernels build
> configuration. To remove the limitation of the fixed 128 ports
> we allocate the amount of idevs by using the number we get
> from the kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1 -> v2: - reworked memory allocation into one calloc call
> - added error path on allocation failure
> v2 -> v3: - moved check for available nports to beginning of function
>

Hmm. With this patch I see a segfault when I run usbip port command.
I think this patch is incomplete and more changes are needed to the
code that references the idev array.

I can't take this patch.

thanks,
-- Shuah