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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2013-07-08 16:01:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-09 10:33:31 -0700
commit27daabd9b6a157c34a6e7a7f509fa26866e6420f (patch)
tree349a1b1641ac497a3c999e1524dd39812f93a6b4 /lib
parenta451751172b39702e94c683882ab01d816b673c7 (diff)
downloadlinux-next-27daabd9b6a157c34a6e7a7f509fa26866e6420f.tar.gz
lib/scatterlist: error handling in __sg_alloc_table()
I was reviewing code which I suspected might allocate a zero size SG table. That will cause memory corruption. Also we can't return before doing the memset or we could end up using uninitialized memory in the cleanup path. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/scatterlist.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c
index 129a82f707df..a685c8a79578 100644
--- a/lib/scatterlist.c
+++ b/lib/scatterlist.c
@@ -247,13 +247,15 @@ int __sg_alloc_table(struct sg_table *table, unsigned int nents,
struct scatterlist *sg, *prv;
unsigned int left;
+ memset(table, 0, sizeof(*table));
+
+ if (nents == 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
#ifndef ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(nents > max_ents))
return -EINVAL;
#endif
- memset(table, 0, sizeof(*table));
-
left = nents;
prv = NULL;
do {