Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: Fix memory allocation in nanddev_bbt_init()

[Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

Schrempf Frieder <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de> wrote on Tue, 27 Nov
2018 08:30:24 +0000:

> On 27.11.18 09:22, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 07:44:52 +0000
> > Schrempf Frieder <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de> wrote:
> >   
> >> Fix the size of the buffer allocated to store the in-memory BBT.
> >> This bug was previously hidden by a different bug, that was fixed in
> >> d098093ba06e.  
> > 
> > Oops :-/.
> >   
> >>
> >> Fixes: 9c3736a3de21 ("mtd: nand: Add core infrastructure to deal with NAND devices")
> >> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>
> >> ---
> >>   drivers/mtd/nand/bbt.c | 3 ++-
> >>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/bbt.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/bbt.c
> >> index 56cde38..c12497f 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/bbt.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/bbt.c
> >> @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ int nanddev_bbt_init(struct nand_device *nand)
> >>   	unsigned int nwords = DIV_ROUND_UP(nblocks * bits_per_block,
> >>   					   BITS_PER_LONG);
> >>   
> >> -	nand->bbt.cache = kzalloc(nwords, GFP_KERNEL);
> >> +	nand->bbt.cache = kzalloc(nwords * (BITS_PER_LONG / BITS_PER_BYTE),  
> > 
> > I prefer
> > 
> > 					 * sizeof(*nand->bbt.cache)
> > If you're okay with this change, I'll fix it when applying (no need to
> > send a new version).  
> 
> Sure, that's ok.

I also prefer with the sizeof() operator. Thanks for fixing this!

Acked-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>


Thanks,
Miquèl