From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
To: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] amd/amdgpu_ctx: Use struct_size() helper and kmalloc()
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 09:39:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201009143947.GA32493@embeddedor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de2282e7-7eb9-db79-1082-36d6508b05dd@amd.com>
On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 04:29:55PM +0200, Christian König wrote:
> > > > - entity = kcalloc(1, offsetof(typeof(*entity), fences[amdgpu_sched_jobs]),
> > > > + entity = kmalloc(struct_size(entity, fences, amdgpu_sched_jobs),
> > > NAK. You could use kzalloc() here, but kmalloc won't zero initialize the
> > > memory which could result in unforeseen consequences.
> > Oh I see.. I certainly didn't take that into account.
> >
> > I'll fix that up and respin.
>
> Shit happens, we already have a fix for this. Alex merged it and it
> immediately broke our testing systems.
:/
> So one of our engineers came up with a fix which should already have been
> applied.
Great. Good to know it's already fixed! :)
Thanks
--
Gustavo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-09 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-08 14:34 [PATCH][next] amd/amdgpu_ctx: Use struct_size() helper and kmalloc() Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-10-08 17:22 ` Alex Deucher
2020-10-09 7:08 ` Christian König
2020-10-09 13:54 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2020-10-09 14:29 ` Christian König
2020-10-09 14:39 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
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