Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] staging: rtl8712: fix buggy size calculation

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 09:41:10PM -0700, Joshua Clayton wrote:
> r8712_get_ndis_wlan_bssid_ex_sz has a "6 * sizeof(unsigned long)"
> where the underlying struct has a 6 * unsigned char.
> Simplify the calculation by just subtracting the variable part from
> the size of the struct.
> 
> This also gets rid of a use of typedef NDIS_802_11_RATES_EX
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@gmail.com>
> ---
<snip>
>  
>  u8 *r8712_get_capability_from_ie(u8 *ie)
> -- 
> 2.4.6
> 
> From: Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@gmail.com>
> To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
> 	Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com>,
> 	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
> 	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>,
> 	Nitin Kuppelur <nitinkuppelur@gmail.com>,
> 	Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@gmail.com>,
> 	Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@gmail.com>,
> 	Tapasweni Pathak <tapaswenipathak@gmail.com>,
> 	Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com>,
> 	Melike Yurtoglu <aysemelikeyurtoglu@gmail.com>,
> 	Max Perepelitsyn <mperepelitsyn@gmail.com>,
> 	Aya Mahfouz <mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com>,
> 	Cristina Opriceana <cristina.opriceana@gmail.com>,
> 	Dogukan Ergun <dogukan.ergun@gmail.com>,
> 	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>,
> 	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
> 	Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com>,
> 	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
> Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
> 	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH V3 1/8] staging: rtl8712: fix buggy size calculation
> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 21:41:10 -0700
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Something is wrong. The same patch is getting repeated in the same mail
multiple times. I deleted almost 2500 lines after this before sending
this reply. See how your patch is looking like:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2224869

regards
sudip