From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:13:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] fix number of bytes zeroed by sys_fw_init() in arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/fw-emu.c Message-Id: <4730D911.9010701@tiscali.nl> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org The sizeof a pointer is constant, we want the sizeof what is pointed to. -- Zero out 'sizeof(*efi_systab)' bytes of the efi_system_table_t pointer 'efi_systab' instead. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl> --- diff --git a/arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/fw-emu.c b/arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/fw-emu.c index 1189d03..bf6d9d8 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/fw-emu.c +++ b/arch/ia64/hp/sim/boot/fw-emu.c @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ sys_fw_init (const char *args, int arglen) } cmd_line[arglen] = '\0'; - memset(efi_systab, 0, sizeof(efi_systab)); + memset(efi_systab, 0, sizeof(*efi_systab)); efi_systab->hdr.signature = EFI_SYSTEM_TABLE_SIGNATURE; efi_systab->hdr.revision = ((1 << 16) | 00); efi_systab->hdr.headersize = sizeof(efi_systab->hdr);