Patch "i2c: brcmstb: allocate correct amount of memory for regmap" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "i2c: brcmstb: allocate correct amount of memory for regmap" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    i2c: brcmstb: allocate correct amount of memory for regmap

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     i2c-brcmstb-allocate-correct-amount-of-memory-for-regmap.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 7314d22a2f5bd40468d57768be368c3d9b4bd726 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 15:16:48 +0100
Subject: i2c: brcmstb: allocate correct amount of memory for regmap

From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>

commit 7314d22a2f5bd40468d57768be368c3d9b4bd726 upstream.

We want the size of the struct, not of a pointer to it. To be future
proof, just dereference the pointer to get the desired type.

Fixes: dd1aa2524bc5 ("i2c: brcmstb: Add Broadcom settop SoC i2c controller driver")
Acked-by: Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamal Dasu <kdasu.kdev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-brcmstb.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-brcmstb.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-brcmstb.c
@@ -562,8 +562,7 @@ static int brcmstb_i2c_probe(struct plat
 	if (!dev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	dev->bsc_regmap = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct bsc_regs *),
-				       GFP_KERNEL);
+	dev->bsc_regmap = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*dev->bsc_regmap), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!dev->bsc_regmap)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wsa@the-dreams.de are

queue-4.4/i2c-brcmstb-allocate-correct-amount-of-memory-for-regmap.patch