Re: [PATCH] crypto: inside-secure: safexcel - fix memory allocation

Antoine Tenart
2018-10-10T13:55:14Z

Hi Gustavo,

On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 09:17:12PM +0200, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> The original intention is to allocate space for EIP197_DEFAULT_RING_SIZE
> *pointers* to struct, so sizeof(priv->ring[i].rdr_req) should be
> sizeof(*priv->ring[i].rdr_req).
>
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1473962 ("Sizeof not portable")
> Fixes: 9744fec95f06 ("crypto: inside-secure - remove request list to improve performance")
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

Acked-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@bootlin.com>

Good catch, thanks!
Antoine

> ---
> drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c b/drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c
> index 86c699c1..bc6c5cb 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/inside-secure/safexcel.c
> @@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@ static int safexcel_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> priv->ring[i].rdr_req = devm_kcalloc(dev,
> EIP197_DEFAULT_RING_SIZE,
> - sizeof(priv->ring[i].rdr_req),
> + sizeof(*priv->ring[i].rdr_req),
> GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!priv->ring[i].rdr_req) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> --
> 2.7.4
>

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Antoine Ténart, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering