[PATCH] firmware: microchip: Fix over-requested allocation size

[Dawei Li]

Hi Conor,

Thanks for the quick review.

On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 09:52:52AM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 05:25:32PM +0800, Dawei Li wrote:
> > cocci warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
> > >> drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c:387:72-78:
> >    ERROR: application of sizeof to pointer
> >    drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c:170:72-78:
> >    ERROR: application of sizeof to pointer
> > 
> > response_msg is a pointer to u32, so the size of element it points to is
> > supposed to be a multiple of sizeof(u32), rather than sizeof(u32 *).
> > 
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202403040516.CYxoWTXw-lkp@intel.com/
> > Signed-off-by: Dawei Li <dawei.li at shingroup.cn>
> > ---
> >  drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c b/drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c
> > index 682e417be5a3..7ea3cdb917bc 100644
> > --- a/drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c
> > +++ b/drivers/firmware/microchip/mpfs-auto-update.c
> > @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static int mpfs_auto_update_available(struct mpfs_auto_update_priv *priv)
> >  	u32 *response_msg;
> >  	int ret;
> >  
> > -	response_msg = devm_kzalloc(priv->dev, AUTO_UPDATE_FEATURE_RESP_SIZE * sizeof(response_msg),
> > +	response_msg = devm_kzalloc(priv->dev, AUTO_UPDATE_FEATURE_RESP_SIZE * sizeof(u32),
> 
> Why not use `sizeof(*response_msg)`?

Because checkpatch complains about 100-character violation and I don't
want to wrap lines :)

I will respin V2 as you suggested.

Thanks,

    Dawei

> 
> Cheers,
> Conor.
> 
> >  				    GFP_KERNEL);
> >  	if (!response_msg)
> >  		return -ENOMEM;
> > -- 
> > 2.27.0
> >