The patch below does not apply to the 4.15-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 2392b84fb2f8daf71e70dd13101ec70ff636a3d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gilad Ben-Yossef gilad@benyossef.com Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 12:14:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] stating: ccree: fix allocation of void sized buf
We were allocating buffers using sizeof(*struct->field) where field was type void. Fix it by having a local variable with the real type.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef gilad@benyossef.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
diff --git a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_ivgen.c b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_ivgen.c index 6b926495c5d2..2ba15a5c631f 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_ivgen.c +++ b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_ivgen.c @@ -175,13 +175,10 @@ int cc_ivgen_init(struct cc_drvdata *drvdata) int rc;
/* Allocate "this" context */ - drvdata->ivgen_handle = kzalloc(sizeof(*drvdata->ivgen_handle), - GFP_KERNEL); - if (!drvdata->ivgen_handle) + ivgen_ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ivgen_ctx), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!ivgen_ctx) return -ENOMEM;
- ivgen_ctx = drvdata->ivgen_handle; - /* Allocate pool's header for initial enc. key/IV */ ivgen_ctx->pool_meta = dma_alloc_coherent(device, CC_IVPOOL_META_SIZE, &ivgen_ctx->pool_meta_dma, @@ -200,6 +197,8 @@ int cc_ivgen_init(struct cc_drvdata *drvdata) goto out; }
+ drvdata->ivgen_handle = ivgen_ctx; + return cc_init_iv_sram(drvdata);
out: diff --git a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_sram_mgr.c b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_sram_mgr.c index 1a2a7f4dc657..c5497aacc71d 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_sram_mgr.c +++ b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_sram_mgr.c @@ -32,13 +32,16 @@ void cc_sram_mgr_fini(struct cc_drvdata *drvdata) */ int cc_sram_mgr_init(struct cc_drvdata *drvdata) { + struct cc_sram_ctx *ctx; + /* Allocate "this" context */ - drvdata->sram_mgr_handle = kzalloc(sizeof(*drvdata->sram_mgr_handle), - GFP_KERNEL); + ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!drvdata->sram_mgr_handle) + if (!ctx) return -ENOMEM;
+ drvdata->sram_mgr_handle = ctx; + return 0; }