[PATCH] mtd: oxnas_nand: Allocating more than necessary in probe()

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Tue Apr 25 02:19:49 PDT 2017


We only need to allocate sizeof(struct oxnas_nand_ctrl) which is 192
bytes and not sizeof(struct nand_chip) which is a much larger 3056
bytes.

Fixes: 668592492409 ("mtd: nand: Add OX820 NAND Support")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/oxnas_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/oxnas_nand.c
index 3e3bf3b364d2..1b207aac840c 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/oxnas_nand.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/oxnas_nand.c
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static int oxnas_nand_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	int err = 0;
 
 	/* Allocate memory for the device structure (and zero it) */
-	oxnas = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct nand_chip),
+	oxnas = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*oxnas),
 			     GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!oxnas)
 		return -ENOMEM;



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