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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] power: battery: pointer math issue in gab_probe()
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 07:06:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120930070646.GO4587@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348978125.7492.2.camel@anish-Inspiron-N5050>

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 09:38:45AM +0530, anish kumar wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 10:13 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > psy->properties is an enum (32 bit type) so adding sizeof() puts us
> > four times further along than we intended.  It should be cast to a char
> > pointer before doing the math.
> You really read this driver to find out this one.
> Good one.

Nah.  It's a static checker thing with Smatch
(http://smatch.sf.net).  When you add pointer + sizeof(), the
pointer should always be char.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-30  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-29  7:13 [patch] power: battery: pointer math issue in gab_probe() Dan Carpenter
2012-09-30  4:20 ` anish kumar
2012-09-30  7:06   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-11-05 12:34   ` anish kumar
2012-11-05 13:09     ` Dan Carpenter
2012-11-05 18:37       ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-11-17  2:36 ` Anton Vorontsov

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