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authorPaulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>2005-03-30 22:39:49 -0500
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2005-07-11 23:58:45 -0400
commitd1dd0c23916bd781de27bc5ec1c295064e9ce9cc (patch)
tree8a817dfc450af2d2233533dc44593d33e2117eb5 /drivers/acpi
parent7334571f724df7a19f48cc974e991e00afde1e2f (diff)
[ACPI] fix kmalloc size bug in acpi/video.c
acpi_video_device_find_cap() used &p instead of *p when calculating storage size, thus allocating only 4 or 8 bytes instead of 12... Also, kfree(NULL) is legal, so remove some unneeded checks. From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/video.c13
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
index b3b352b8330a..2cf264fd52e0 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -564,12 +564,13 @@ acpi_video_device_find_cap (struct acpi_video_device *device)
564 int count = 0; 564 int count = 0;
565 union acpi_object *o; 565 union acpi_object *o;
566 566
567 br = kmalloc(sizeof &br, GFP_KERNEL); 567 br = kmalloc(sizeof(*br), GFP_KERNEL);
568 if (!br) { 568 if (!br) {
569 printk(KERN_ERR "can't allocate memory\n"); 569 printk(KERN_ERR "can't allocate memory\n");
570 } else { 570 } else {
571 memset(br, 0, sizeof &br); 571 memset(br, 0, sizeof(*br));
572 br->levels = kmalloc(obj->package.count * sizeof &br->levels, GFP_KERNEL); 572 br->levels = kmalloc(obj->package.count *
573 sizeof *(br->levels), GFP_KERNEL);
573 if (!br->levels) 574 if (!br->levels)
574 goto out; 575 goto out;
575 576
@@ -584,8 +585,7 @@ acpi_video_device_find_cap (struct acpi_video_device *device)
584 } 585 }
585out: 586out:
586 if (count < 2) { 587 if (count < 2) {
587 if (br->levels) 588 kfree(br->levels);
588 kfree(br->levels);
589 kfree(br); 589 kfree(br);
590 } else { 590 } else {
591 br->count = count; 591 br->count = count;
@@ -595,8 +595,7 @@ out:
595 } 595 }
596 } 596 }
597 597
598 if (obj) 598 kfree(obj);
599 kfree(obj);
600 599
601 return_VOID; 600 return_VOID;
602} 601}