linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sh: sq: Fix incorrect element size for allocating bitmap buffer

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Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:58:43 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh: sq: Fix incorrect element size for allocating bitmap buffer

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 1:55 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> The Store Queue code allocates a bitmap buffer with the size of
> multiple of sizeof(long) in sq_api_init(). While the buffer size
> is calculated correctly, the code uses the wrong element size to
> allocate the buffer which results in the allocated bitmap buffer
> being too small.
>
> Fix this by allocating the buffer with kcalloc() with element size
> sizeof(long) instead of kzalloc() whose elements size defaults to
> sizeof(char).
>
> Fixes: d7c30c682a27 ("sh: Store Queue API rework.")
> Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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