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Subject: Misuses of ** ? (was Re: [PATCH 1/1] ASoC: Intel: Atom: add a
 missing star in a memcpy call)
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
        alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
        Dan Capenter <error27@gmail.com>
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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 10:50:36 -0700
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On Sun, 2016-08-28 at 19:39 +0200, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
> In sst_prepare_and_post_msg(), when a response is received in "block",
> the following code gets executed:
> 
>     *data = kzalloc(block->size, GFP_KERNEL);
>     memcpy(data, (void *) block->data, block->size);

Yuck, thanks.

Julia, Dan, could cocci or smatch help find any other
similar misuses here?