Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH -mm] drivers/usb/core/config.c: kzalloc(0, ..)

[Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>]

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Greg KH wrote:

> >  The problem was in drivers/usb/core/config.c in function 
> >  usb_parse_interface:
> >  ---
> >  num_ep = num_ep_orig = alt->desc.bNumEndpoints;
> >  ...
> >  len = sizeof(struct usb_host_endpoint) * num_ep;
> >  alt->endpoint = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
> >  ---
> > 
> >  num_ep can be 0, as it was in my case, so following patch makes this
> >  situation more obvious
> >  and clear.

How about instead just doing:

+	num_ep = max(num_ep, 1);
 	len = sizeof(struct usb_host_endpoint) * num_ep;

Also, wasn't it true at one point that it was legal to call kmalloc() with 
a length of 0?  ISTR seeing somewhere that it's true for regular malloc().

Alan Stern

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