[PATCH V2] rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix memset/memcpy using sizeof(ptr) not sizeof(*ptr)

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 11:02 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 05/09/2011 12:43 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Found via coccinelle script
> > @@
> > type T;
> > T* ptr;
> > expression E1;
> > @@
> > * memset(E1, 0, sizeof(ptr));
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches<joe@perches.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c |    2 +-
> >   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
> > @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ static void _rtl_rx_process(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
[]
> > +	memset(rx_status, 0, sizeof(*rx_status));
> ACK.

Hey Larry.

If this is correct, then probably the memcpy at the
end of the routine needs conversion too.

---

 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
index 79c98f6..3a92ba3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ static void _rtl_rx_process(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	__le16 fc;
 	struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr;
 
-	memset(rx_status, 0, sizeof(rx_status));
+	memset(rx_status, 0, sizeof(*rx_status));
 	rxdesc	= skb->data;
 	skb_len	= skb->len;
 	drvinfo_len = (GET_RX_DESC_DRVINFO_SIZE(rxdesc) * RTL_RX_DRV_INFO_UNIT);
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ static void _rtl_rx_process(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		 "0x%02X\n", fc, (u32)hdr->addr1[0], (u32)hdr->addr1[1],
 		 (u32)hdr->addr1[2], (u32)hdr->addr1[3], (u32)hdr->addr1[4],
 		 (u32)hdr->addr1[5]));
-	memcpy(IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb), &rx_status, sizeof(rx_status));
+	memcpy(IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb), rx_status, sizeof(*rx_status));
 	ieee80211_rx_irqsafe(hw, skb);
 }