From: Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid zero size allocation in cache_k8_northbridges()
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 14:44:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179341042.6870.280.camel@cunning> (raw)
kmalloc for flush_words resulted in zero size allocation when no
k8_northbridges existed. Short circuit the code path for this case.
Also remove uneeded zeroing of num_k8_northbridges just after checking
if it is zero.
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/k8.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/k8.c
index bc11b32..7377ccb 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/k8.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/k8.c
@@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ int cache_k8_northbridges(void)
{
int i;
struct pci_dev *dev;
+
if (num_k8_northbridges)
return 0;
- num_k8_northbridges = 0;
dev = NULL;
while ((dev = next_k8_northbridge(dev)) != NULL)
num_k8_northbridges++;
@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ int cache_k8_northbridges(void)
if (!k8_northbridges)
return -ENOMEM;
+ if (!num_k8_northbridges) {
+ k8_northbridges[0] = NULL;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
flush_words = kmalloc(num_k8_northbridges * sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!flush_words) {
kfree(k8_northbridges);
--
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