[PATCH] drm: amdgpu: Use the correct size when allocating memory

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Mon Aug 10 15:42:13 UTC 2020


On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 10:34:06PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> When '*sgt' is allocated, we must allocated 'sizeof(**sgt)' bytes instead
> of 'sizeof(*sg)'. 'sg' (i.e. struct scatterlist) is smaller than
> 'sgt' (i.e struct sg_table), so this could lead to memory corruption.

The sizeof(*sg) is bigger than sizeof(**sgt) so this wastes memory but
it won't lead to corruption.

    11  struct scatterlist {
    12          unsigned long   page_link;
    13          unsigned int    offset;
    14          unsigned int    length;
    15          dma_addr_t      dma_address;
    16  #ifdef CONFIG_NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH
    17          unsigned int    dma_length;
    18  #endif
    19  };

    42  struct sg_table {
    43          struct scatterlist *sgl;        /* the list */
    44          unsigned int nents;             /* number of mapped entries */
    45          unsigned int orig_nents;        /* original size of list */
    46  };

regards,
dan carpenter



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