netdev - Re: [wireless] wifi: mwifiex: Fix the size of a memory allocation in mwifiex_ret_802_11

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Message-ID: <168381113342.27145.15828757976515232623.kvalo@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 13:18:55 +0000 (UTC)
From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
To: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
 Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi017@...il.com>,
 Sharvari Harisangam <sharvari.harisangam@....com>,
 Xinming Hu <huxinming820@...il.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, chunfan chen <jeffc@...vell.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
 Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
 Xinming Hu <huxm@...vell.com>, Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@...vell.com>,
 linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [wireless] wifi: mwifiex: Fix the size of a memory allocation in
 mwifiex_ret_802_11_scan()

Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr> wrote:

> The type of "mwifiex_adapter->nd_info" is "struct cfg80211_wowlan_nd_info",
> not "struct cfg80211_wowlan_nd_match".
> 
> Use struct_size() to ease the computation of the needed size.
> 
> The current code over-allocates some memory, so is safe.
> But it wastes 32 bytes.
> 
> Fixes: 7d7f07d8c5d3 ("mwifiex: add wowlan net-detect support")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>

Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.

d9aef04fcfa8 wifi: mwifiex: Fix the size of a memory allocation in mwifiex_ret_802_11_scan()

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/7a6074fb056d2181e058a3cc6048d8155c20aec7.1683371982.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches