Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: Fix memory allocation in nanddev_bbt_init()

From: Schrempf Frieder
Date: Tue Nov 27 2018 - 03:30:32 EST


On 27.11.18 09:22, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 07:44:52 +0000
> Schrempf Frieder <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Fix the size of the buffer allocated to store the in-memory BBT.
>> This bug was previously hidden by a different bug, that was fixed in
>> d098093ba06e.
>
> Oops :-/.
>
>>
>> Fixes: 9c3736a3de21 ("mtd: nand: Add core infrastructure to deal with NAND devices")
>> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/mtd/nand/bbt.c | 3 ++-
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/bbt.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/bbt.c
>> index 56cde38..c12497f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/bbt.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/bbt.c
>> @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ int nanddev_bbt_init(struct nand_device *nand)
>> unsigned int nwords = DIV_ROUND_UP(nblocks * bits_per_block,
>> BITS_PER_LONG);
>>
>> - nand->bbt.cache = kzalloc(nwords, GFP_KERNEL);
>> + nand->bbt.cache = kzalloc(nwords * (BITS_PER_LONG / BITS_PER_BYTE),
>
> I prefer
>
> * sizeof(*nand->bbt.cache)
> If you're okay with this change, I'll fix it when applying (no need to
> send a new version).

Sure, that's ok.