Re: [patch] irqchip/irq-crossbar: not allocating enough memory

[Sricharan R]

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@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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@xxxxxx>


Regards,
 Sricharan
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