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* [PATCH 3/4] drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_transport.c: take size of pointed value, not pointer
@ 2011-09-16  6:57 Julia Lawall
  2011-09-16 16:32 ` [PATCH 3/4] drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_transport.c: take size Joe Perches
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Julia Lawall @ 2011-09-16  6:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: James E.J. Bottomley
  Cc: kernel-janitors, Kashyap Desai, James Bottomley, linux-scsi,
	linux-kernel

From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

Sizeof a pointer-typed expression returns the size of the pointer, not that
of the pointed data.

The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression *e;
type T;
identifier f;
@@

f(...,(T)e,...,
-sizeof(e)
+sizeof(*e)
,...)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

---
 drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_transport.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_transport.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_transport.c
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_transport.c
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ _transport_set_identify(struct MPT2SAS_A
 		return -EIO;
 	}
 
-	memset(identify, 0, sizeof(identify));
+	memset(identify, 0, sizeof(*identify));
 	device_info = le32_to_cpu(sas_device_pg0.DeviceInfo);
 
 	/* sas_address */


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* Re: [PATCH 3/4] drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_transport.c: take size
  2011-09-16  6:57 [PATCH 3/4] drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_transport.c: take size of pointed value, not pointer Julia Lawall
@ 2011-09-16 16:32 ` Joe Perches
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Joe Perches @ 2011-09-16 16:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Julia Lawall
  Cc: James E.J. Bottomley, kernel-janitors, Kashyap Desai,
	James Bottomley, linux-scsi, linux-kernel

On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 08:57 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> Sizeof a pointer-typed expression returns the size of the pointer, not that
> of the pointed data.

Hi Julia.

I submitted the same thing in May.
I hope it takes this time.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/9/31



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