From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:47:05 +0000 Subject: [patch] wireless: at76c50x: allocating too much data Message-Id: <20120420064705.GE22649@elgon.mountain> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "John W. Linville" Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org This is a cut and paste mistake, sizeof(struct mib_local) was intended instead of sizeof(struct mib_phy). The call to at76_get_mib() uses sizeof(struct mib_local) correctly. The current code works fine because mib_phy structs are larger than mib_local structs. But we may as well clean it up. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c index faa8bcb..0bba5ea 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/at76c50x-usb.c @@ -1122,7 +1122,7 @@ exit: static void at76_dump_mib_local(struct at76_priv *priv) { int ret; - struct mib_local *m = kmalloc(sizeof(struct mib_phy), GFP_KERNEL); + struct mib_local *m = kmalloc(sizeof(struct mib_local), GFP_KERNEL); if (!m) return;