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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	Dan Capenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Misuses of ** ? (was Re: [PATCH 1/1] ASoC: Intel: Atom: add a missing star in a memcpy call)
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 10:50:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1472406636.26978.95.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160828173945.27721-1-nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>

On Sun, 2016-08-28 at 19:39 +0200, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
> In sst_prepare_and_post_msg(), when a response is received in "block",
> the following code gets executed:
> 
>     *data = kzalloc(block->size, GFP_KERNEL);
>     memcpy(data, (void *) block->data, block->size);

Yuck, thanks.

Julia, Dan, could cocci or smatch help find any other
similar misuses here?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-28 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-28 17:39 [PATCH 1/1] ASoC: Intel: Atom: add a missing star in a memcpy call Nicolas Iooss
2016-08-28 17:50 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-08-28 18:52   ` Misuses of ** ? (was Re: [PATCH 1/1] ASoC: Intel: Atom: add a missing star in a memcpy call) Nicolas Iooss
2016-08-28 19:38     ` Julia Lawall
2016-08-28 20:34       ` Joe Perches
2016-08-28 21:40         ` Julia Lawall
2016-08-28 21:54           ` Joe Perches
2016-08-28 18:17 ` [PATCH 1/1] ASoC: Intel: Atom: add a missing star in a memcpy call Joe Perches
2016-08-28 18:31   ` Nicolas Iooss

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