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* [S390] monwriter kzalloc size.
@ 2006-10-11 13:35 Martin Schwidefsky
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From: Martin Schwidefsky @ 2006-10-11 13:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, melissah

From: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com>

[S390] monwriter kzalloc size.

Fix length on kzalloc for data buffer so as to not overwrite
unallocated storage.

Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
---

 drivers/s390/char/monwriter.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -urpN linux-2.6/drivers/s390/char/monwriter.c linux-2.6-patched/drivers/s390/char/monwriter.c
--- linux-2.6/drivers/s390/char/monwriter.c	2006-10-11 15:23:22.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6-patched/drivers/s390/char/monwriter.c	2006-10-11 15:23:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static int monwrite_new_hdr(struct mon_p
 		monbuf = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mon_buf), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!monbuf)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-		monbuf->data = kzalloc(monbuf->hdr.datalen,
+		monbuf->data = kzalloc(monhdr->datalen,
 				       GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
 		if (!monbuf->data) {
 			kfree(monbuf);

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