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From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
To: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] tools/perf/util: correct size computation
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:08:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1CD40F.4010407@bfs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912061016120.20858@ask.diku.dk>



Julia Lawall schrieb:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> 
> The size argument to zalloc should be the size of desired structure,
> not the pointer to it.
> 
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @expression@
> expression *x;
> @@
> 
> x >  <+...
> -sizeof(x)
> +sizeof(*x)
> ...+>// </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> 
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff -u -p a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ struct tracepoint_path *tracepoint_id_to
>  			if (id = config) {
>  				closedir(evt_dir);
>  				closedir(sys_dir);
> -				path = zalloc(sizeof(path));
> +				path = zalloc(sizeof(*path));
>  				path->system = malloc(MAX_EVENT_LENGTH);
>  				if (!path->system) {
>  					free(path);

and zalloc() can not fail ?
re,
 wh

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From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
To: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] tools/perf/util: correct size computation
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:08:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1CD40F.4010407@bfs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912061016120.20858@ask.diku.dk>



Julia Lawall schrieb:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> 
> The size argument to zalloc should be the size of desired structure,
> not the pointer to it.
> 
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @expression@
> expression *x;
> @@
> 
> x =
>  <+...
> -sizeof(x)
> +sizeof(*x)
> ...+>// </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> 
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff -u -p a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
> @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ struct tracepoint_path *tracepoint_id_to
>  			if (id == config) {
>  				closedir(evt_dir);
>  				closedir(sys_dir);
> -				path = zalloc(sizeof(path));
> +				path = zalloc(sizeof(*path));
>  				path->system = malloc(MAX_EVENT_LENGTH);
>  				if (!path->system) {
>  					free(path);

and zalloc() can not fail ?
re,
 wh

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-07 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-06  9:16 [PATCH 4/5] tools/perf/util: correct size computation Julia Lawall
2009-12-06  9:16 ` Julia Lawall
2009-12-06  9:24 ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf tools: Correct size computation in tracepoint_id_to_path() tip-bot for Julia Lawall
2009-12-07 10:08 ` walter harms [this message]
2009-12-07 10:08   ` [PATCH 4/5] tools/perf/util: correct size computation walter harms

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