[PATCH] drm: Use kvzalloc for allocating blob property memory

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Fri Jun 29 14:27:10 UTC 2018


From: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer at amd.com>

The property size may be controlled by userspace, can be large (I've
seen failure with order 4, i.e. 16 pages / 64 KB) and doesn't need to be
physically contiguous.

Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer at amd.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_property.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_property.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_property.c
index 1f8031e30f53..cdb10f885a4f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_property.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_property.c
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ static void drm_property_free_blob(struct kref *kref)
 
 	drm_mode_object_unregister(blob->dev, &blob->base);
 
-	kfree(blob);
+	kvfree(blob);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ drm_property_create_blob(struct drm_device *dev, size_t length,
 	if (!length || length > ULONG_MAX - sizeof(struct drm_property_blob))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
-	blob = kzalloc(sizeof(struct drm_property_blob)+length, GFP_KERNEL);
+	blob = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct drm_property_blob)+length, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!blob)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ drm_property_create_blob(struct drm_device *dev, size_t length,
 	ret = __drm_mode_object_add(dev, &blob->base, DRM_MODE_OBJECT_BLOB,
 				    true, drm_property_free_blob);
 	if (ret) {
-		kfree(blob);
+		kvfree(blob);
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
 
-- 
2.18.0



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