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

[Boris Brezillon]

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.
> 
> Fixes: 9c3736a3de21 ("mtd: nand: Add core infrastructure to deal with NAND devices")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks like your From header does not match the SoB tag
('Frieder Schrempf' vs 'Schrempf Frieder') and checkpatch does not like
that. I'll fix it when applying, but maybe you should fix
your .gitconfig to make them match.

> ---
>  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),
> +				  GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!nand->bbt.cache)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>