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authorChangli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>2010-04-23 13:17:45 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-24 11:31:24 -0700
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tree00849f207341841a7f5190c270fa0f82dcbda587
parent46da27664887fb95cedba53eafcf876de812c8c1 (diff)
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flex_array: fix the panic when calling flex_array_alloc() without __GFP_ZERO
memset() is called with the wrong address and the kernel panics. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--lib/flex_array.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/flex_array.c b/lib/flex_array.c
index 66eef2e4483e..41b1804fa728 100644
--- a/lib/flex_array.c
+++ b/lib/flex_array.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ struct flex_array *flex_array_alloc(int element_size, unsigned int total,
ret->element_size = element_size;
ret->total_nr_elements = total;
if (elements_fit_in_base(ret) && !(flags & __GFP_ZERO))
- memset(ret->parts[0], FLEX_ARRAY_FREE,
+ memset(&ret->parts[0], FLEX_ARRAY_FREE,
FLEX_ARRAY_BASE_BYTES_LEFT);
return ret;
}