Re: [PATCH] crypto: chelsio - remove extra allocation for chtls_dev

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 11:20:51PM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> chtls_uld_add allocates room for info->nports net_device structs
> following the chtls_dev struct, presumably because it was originally
> intended that the ports array would be stored there. This is suggested
> by the assignment which was present in initial versions and removed by
> c4e848586cf1 ("crypto: chelsio - remove redundant assignment to
> cdev->ports"):
> 
> 	cdev->ports = (struct net_device **)(cdev + 1);
> 
> This assignment was never used, being overwritten by lldi->ports
> immediately afterwards, and I couldn't find any uses of the memory
> allocated past the end of the struct.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/chelsio/chtls/chtls_main.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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