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authorMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>2008-10-07 11:37:35 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-07 11:19:23 -0700
commit85ba94ba0592296053f7f2846812173424afe1cb (patch)
tree08b988ee8ebae30f31830801a44a62e0eec4856e /mm/slob.c
parente09e6e2b6a5daf653794926ab50a784b14b6de53 (diff)
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SLOB: fix bogus ksize calculation
SLOB's ksize calculation was braindamaged and generally harmlessly underreported the allocation size. But for very small buffers, it could in fact overreport them, leading code depending on krealloc to overrun the allocation and trample other data. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slob.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/slob.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slob.c b/mm/slob.c
index 4c82dd41..62b679d 100644
--- a/mm/slob.c
+++ b/mm/slob.c
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ size_t ksize(const void *block)
sp = (struct slob_page *)virt_to_page(block);
if (slob_page(sp))
- return ((slob_t *)block - 1)->units + SLOB_UNIT;
+ return (((slob_t *)block - 1)->units - 1) * SLOB_UNIT;
else
return sp->page.private;
}
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