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Message-ID: <c962e03c-6091-483a-90f2-4db8afe5283a@kadam.mountain>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:45:03 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
Cc: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	dccp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] dccp: Allocate enough data in
 ccid_get_builtin_ccids()

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 03:00:37PM +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 02:56:01PM +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 01:47:02PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > This is allocating the ARRAY_SIZE() instead of the number of bytes.  The
> > > array size is 1 or 2 depending on the .config and it should allocate
> > > 8 or 16 bytes instead.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: ddebc973c56b ("dccp: Lockless integration of CCID congestion-control plugins")
> > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
> 
> Sorry, I was a bit hasty there.
> 
> > > --- a/net/dccp/ccid.c
> > > +++ b/net/dccp/ccid.c
> > > @@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ bool ccid_support_check(u8 const *ccid_array, u8 array_len)
> > >   */
> > >  int ccid_get_builtin_ccids(u8 **ccid_array, u8 *array_len)
> > >  {
> > > -       *ccid_array = kmalloc(ARRAY_SIZE(ccids), gfp_any());
> > > +       *ccid_array = kmalloc_array(ARRAY_SIZE(ccids), sizeof(*ccid_array),
> > > +                                   gfp_any());
> 
> The type of *ccid_array is u8.
> But shouldn't this be something more like sizeof(struct ccid_operations)
> or sizeof(ccids[0]) ?

Aw crud.  Actually the code is fine isn't it.  I thought it was saving
pointers but actually it's saving char.  *Embarrassing*.

regards,
dan carpenter