Re: [PATCH] /drivers/video/backlight/tdo24m - crash on kmalloc

From: Eric Miao
Date: Mon Jun 29 2009 - 03:23:43 EST


Aviv Laufer wrote:
> There is a crash in tdo24m module caused by a call to kmalloc with
> the second parameter sizeof(flag) instead of flag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aviv Laufer <aviv.laufer@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
>
> --- linux-2.6.30/drivers/video/backlight/tdo24m.c.orig 2009-06-23
> 15:08:02.000000000 +0300
> +++ linux-2.6.30/drivers/video/backlight/tdo24m.c 2009-06-23
> 15:09:05.000000000 +0300
> @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ static int __devinit tdo24m_probe(struct
> lcd->power = FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN;
> lcd->mode = MODE_VGA; /* default to VGA */
>
> - lcd->buf = kmalloc(TDO24M_SPI_BUFF_SIZE, sizeof(GFP_KERNEL));
> + lcd->buf = kmalloc(TDO24M_SPI_BUFF_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (lcd->buf == NULL) {
> kfree(lcd);
> return -ENOMEM;
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