From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>,
Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] wireless: at76c50x: allocating too much data
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:51:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120421145140.GU6498@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1204211548090.1987@hadrien>
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 03:51:44PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Looking for x = ... sizeof(x) ... I get 9 reports. In most cases it
> looks like sizeof(x) is coincidentally the same as the size that is
> wanted. Two cases that look like they could have some noticible
> effect are:
>
> arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/network.c, line 789
> drivers/block/cciss.c, line 4211
>
Clever. You'd need to restrict it to places where x was a pointer.
That's better than my check which was specific to kmalloc(). (So
uh... I'm going to rewrite mine as well to be more generic. :P)
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-21 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-20 6:47 [patch] wireless: at76c50x: allocating too much data Dan Carpenter
2012-04-20 8:57 ` Julian Calaby
2012-04-20 9:14 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-04-20 18:14 ` Kalle Valo
2012-04-21 12:23 ` [patch v2] " Dan Carpenter
2012-04-21 12:45 ` [patch] " Dan Carpenter
2012-04-21 13:19 ` Julia Lawall
2012-04-21 13:51 ` Julia Lawall
2012-04-21 14:51 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-04-21 14:51 ` Julia Lawall
2012-04-21 14:59 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-04-21 15:12 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-04-21 15:13 ` Julia Lawall
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