RE: [PATCH] RDMA/irdma: Fix a potential memory allocation issue in 'irdma_prm_add_pble_mem()'

[Saleem, Shiraz]

> Subject: [PATCH] RDMA/irdma: Fix a potential memory allocation issue in
> 'irdma_prm_add_pble_mem()'
> 
> 'pchunk->bitmapbuf' is a bitmap. Its size (in number of bits) is stored in 'pchunk-
> >sizeofbitmap'.
> 
> When it is allocated, the size (in bytes) is computed by:
>    size_in_bits >> 3
> 
> There are 2 issues (numbers bellow assume that longs are 64 bits):
>    - there is no guarantee here that 'pchunk->bitmapmem.size' is modulo
>      BITS_PER_LONG but bitmaps are stored as longs
>      (sizeofbitmap=8 bits will only allocate 1 byte, instead of 8 (1 long))
> 
>    - the number of bytes is computed with a shift, not a round up, so we
>      may allocate less memory than needed
>      (sizeofbitmap=65 bits will only allocate 8 bytes (i.e. 1 long), when 2
>      longs are needed = 16 bytes)

Since sizeofbitmap is always a multiple of 64 (pchunk->size is a multiple of 4K block size, and pprm->pble_shift = 6),
I am not sure we will hit these issues today.

> 
> Fix both issues by using 'bitmap_zalloc()' and remove the useless 'bitmapmem'
> from 'struct irdma_chunk'.
> 
> While at it, remove some useless NULL test before calling kfree/bitmap_free.

Yes nonetheless the patch is good. And we should be using the bitmap_zalloc/free API's rather than open-coding it.

Reviewed-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@xxxxxxxxx>