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* [PATCH 4/5] tools/perf/util: correct size computation
@ 2009-12-06  9:16 Julia Lawall
  2009-12-07 10:08 ` walter harms
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Julia Lawall @ 2009-12-06  9:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra, Paul Mackerras, Ingo Molnar, linux-kernel,
	kernel-janitors

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);

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* Re: [PATCH 4/5] tools/perf/util: correct size computation
  2009-12-06  9:16 [PATCH 4/5] tools/perf/util: correct size computation Julia Lawall
@ 2009-12-07 10:08 ` walter harms
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: walter harms @ 2009-12-07 10:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Julia Lawall
  Cc: Peter Zijlstra, Paul Mackerras, Ingo Molnar, linux-kernel,
	kernel-janitors



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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