Re: [PATCH] thermal: mtk: Allocate enough space for mtk_thermal.

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 30/01/2019 10:25, Pi-Hsun Shih wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 3:44 PM Daniel Lezcano
> <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 30/01/2019 07:04, Peter Shih wrote:
>>> Adding Michael Kao to cc list.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 1:57 PM Pi-Hsun Shih <pihsun@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The mtk_thermal struct contains a 'struct mtk_thermal_bank banks[];',
>>>> but the allocation only allocates sizeof(struct mtk_thermal) bytes,
>>>> which cause out of bound access with the ->banks[] member. Change it to
>>>> a fixed size array instead.
>>
>> Even if the fix is correct, it pushes back the bug later in time if a
>> new board containing more than MAX_NUM_ZONES is introduced. I suggest to
>> dynamically allocate the array with the 'num_banks' value.
>>
> 
> For the current code structure, those mtk_thermal_data are statically declared,
> so if there's new board containing more than MAX_NUM_ZONES of bank_data, it
> would actually be a compile error.
> 
> I'm fine with either way, but feel like that this is simpler than manually
> calculating the size needed for allocation.

Right, I missed it can be caught at compile time.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>



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