Patch "mm/sparse.c: wrong allocation for mem_section" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

Patch "mm/sparse.c: wrong allocation for mem_section" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm/sparse.c: wrong allocation for mem_section

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mm-sparse.c-wrong-allocation-for-mem_section.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From d09cfbbfa0f761a97687828b5afb27b56cbf2e19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 16:18:06 -0800
Subject: mm/sparse.c: wrong allocation for mem_section

From: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>

commit d09cfbbfa0f761a97687828b5afb27b56cbf2e19 upstream.

In commit 83e3c48729d9 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime
for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y") mem_section is allocated at runtime to
save memory.

It allocates the first dimension of array with sizeof(struct mem_section).

It costs extra memory, should be sizeof(struct mem_section *).

Fix it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1513932498-20350-1-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com
Fixes: 83e3c48729 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y")
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <ats-kumagai@wm.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/sparse.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ void __init memory_present(int nid, unsi
 	if (unlikely(!mem_section)) {
 		unsigned long size, align;
 
-		size = sizeof(struct mem_section) * NR_SECTION_ROOTS;
+		size = sizeof(struct mem_section*) * NR_SECTION_ROOTS;
 		align = 1 << (INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT);
 		mem_section = memblock_virt_alloc(size, align);
 	}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bhe@redhat.com are

queue-4.14/mm-sparse.c-wrong-allocation-for-mem_section.patch