linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix allocation sizes of knfsd raparm hash

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Date:	Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:02:21 -0400
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix allocation sizes of knfsd raparm hash

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:34:39PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> The raparm was allocated in a wrong size in the commit
> 
>    ca80290ebda9009aedc4bd93ede5d397cb1853dc
>    nfsd: permit unauthenticated stat of export root
> 
> and thus it resulted in memory corruption, eventually Oopsing.
> This patch fixes the allocation size.

Whoops, my fault, now fixed; thanks!

(Out of curiosity--how did you find this?)

--b.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
> index bfa5453..30d606f 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
> @@ -2093,7 +2093,7 @@ nfsd_racache_init(int cache_size)
>  
>  		raparm = &raparm_hash[i].pb_head;
>  		for (j = 0; j < nperbucket; j++) {
> -			*raparm = kzalloc(sizeof(*raparm), GFP_KERNEL);
> +			*raparm = kzalloc(sizeof(**raparm), GFP_KERNEL);
>  			if (!*raparm)
>  				goto out_nomem;
>  			raparm = &(*raparm)->p_next;
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