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[tip:x86/urgent] x86/microcode/intel: Fix allocation size of struct ucode_patch

From tip-bot for Junichi Nomura <tipbot@zytor.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [tip:x86/urgent] x86/microcode/intel: Fix allocation size of struct ucode_patch
Date 2017-01-09 23:20 +0100
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Commit-ID:  9fcf5ba2ef908af916e9002891fbbca20ce4dc98
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/9fcf5ba2ef908af916e9002891fbbca20ce4dc98
Author:     Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 12:41:46 +0100
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitDate: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 23:11:14 +0100

x86/microcode/intel: Fix allocation size of struct ucode_patch

We allocate struct ucode_patch here. @size is the size of microcode data
and used for kmemdup() later in this function.

Fixes: 06b8534cb728 ("x86/microcode: Rework microcode loading")
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7a730dc9-ac17-35c4-fe76-dfc94e5ecd95@ce.jp.nec.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
index faec8fa..9434865 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static struct ucode_patch *__alloc_microcode_buf(void *data, unsigned int size)
 {
 	struct ucode_patch *p;
 
-	p = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	p = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ucode_patch), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!p)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 

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[PATCH] x86/microcode/intel: Fix allocation size of struct  ucode_patch Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> - 2017-01-05 02:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/intel: Fix allocation size of struct  ucode_patch Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-01-05 11:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/intel: Fix allocation size of struct ucode_patch Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-01-05 18:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/intel: Fix allocation size of struct  ucode_patch Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> - 2017-01-06 01:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/intel: Fix allocation size of struct  ucode_patch Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-01-06 01:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/intel: Fix allocation size of struct  ucode_patch Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> - 2017-01-06 01:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/intel: Fix allocation size of struct  ucode_patch Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2017-01-06 12:00 +0100
  [tip:x86/urgent] x86/microcode/intel: Fix allocation size of struct  ucode_patch tip-bot for Junichi Nomura <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-01-09 23:20 +0100

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