[PATCH] i2c: brcmstb: allocate correct amount of memory for regmap

Gregory Fong gregory.0xf0 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 21 22:33:14 PST 2016


On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de> wrote:
> We want the size of the struct, not of a pointer to it. To be future
> proof, just dereference the pointer to get the desired type.

This looks like it fixes like a fairly serious issue: before this
change, the driver may modify memory that wasn't allocated for this
struct.  Shouldn't this also have Cc: stable?

>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de>

Acked-by: Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0 at gmail.com>



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