On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 11:43 +0000, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
The bitmap_zero() nbits argument was improperly set to reg_size but the underlying buffer was bmp_size long. This caused the memset to zero past the end of the allocated buffer and into the kernel heap causing strange kernel crashes sometimes by overwriting critical kernel structures.
Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
sound/soc/soc-cache.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-cache.c b/sound/soc/soc-cache.c index 9b1ba33..5143984 100644 --- a/sound/soc/soc-cache.c +++ b/sound/soc/soc-cache.c @@ -1348,7 +1348,7 @@ static int snd_soc_lzo_cache_init(struct snd_soc_codec *codec) ret = -ENOMEM; goto err; }
- bitmap_zero(sync_bmp, reg_size);
bitmap_zero(sync_bmp, bmp_size);
/* allocate the lzo blocks and initialize them */ for (i = 0; i < blkcount; ++i) {
Acked-by: Liam Girdwood lrg@slimlogic.co.uk