Patch "i2c: brcmstb: allocate correct amount of memory for regmap" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
i2c: brcmstb: allocate correct amount of memory for regmap
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
i2c-brcmstb-allocate-correct-amount-of-memory-for-regmap.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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7314d22a2f5bd40468d57768be368c3d9b4bd726Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 15:16:48 +0100
Subject: i2c: brcmstb: allocate correct amount of memory for regmap
From: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
commit 7314d22a2f5bd40468d57768be368c3d9b4bd726 upstream.
We want the size of the struct, not of a pointer to it. To be future proof, just dereference the pointer to get the desired type.
--- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-brcmstb.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-brcmstb.c +1 -2
@@ -562,8 +562,7 @@ static int brcmstb_i2c_probe(struct platif (!dev)return -ENOMEM ; - dev->bsc_regmap =devm_kzalloc (&pdev->dev,sizeof (struct bsc_regs *), -GFP_KERNEL ); + dev->bsc_regmap =devm_kzalloc (&pdev->dev,sizeof (*dev->bsc_regmap),GFP_KERNEL );if (!dev->bsc_regmap)return -ENOMEM ;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.4/i2c-brcmstb-allocate-correct-amount-of-memory-for-regmap.patch