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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 01/12] p54: memset(0) whole array
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2017 08:51:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1504367461.2361.26.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1504197650.2786.38.camel@perches.com>

On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 09:40 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 17:44 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> > 
> > commit 6f17581788206444cbbcdbc107498f85e9765e3d upstream.
> > 
> > gcc 7 complains:
> > drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/fwio.c: In function 'p54_scan':
> > drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/fwio.c:491:4: warning: 'memset' used with length equal to number of elements without multiplication by element size [-Wmemset-elt-size]
> > 
> > Fix that by passing the correct size to memset.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> > Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
> > Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
> > Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > 
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/fwio.c |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/fwio.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/fwio.c
> > @@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ int p54_scan(struct p54_common *priv, u1
> >  
> >  			entry += sizeof(__le16);
> >  			chan->pa_points_per_curve = 8;
> > -			memset(chan->curve_data, 0, sizeof(*chan->curve_data));
> > +			memset(chan->curve_data, 0, sizeof(chan->curve_data));
> >  			memcpy(chan->curve_data, entry,
> >  			       sizeof(struct p54_pa_curve_data_sample) *
> >  			       min((u8)8, curve_data->points_per_channel));
> > 
> 
> Why is this change correct?
> 
> curve_data is a pointer.
> 
> This now clears the sizeof a pointer and not
> the sizeof struct p54_cal_database

So what happens here?
This change seems clearly incorrect.
For all stable versions.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-02 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-31 15:44 [PATCH 4.9 00/12] 4.9.47-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-31 15:44 ` [PATCH 4.9 01/12] p54: memset(0) whole array Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-31 16:40   ` Joe Perches
2017-09-02 15:51     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-09-03 12:32       ` Christian Lamparter
2017-09-03 15:07         ` Joe Perches
2017-08-31 15:44 ` [PATCH 4.9 02/12] scsi: isci: avoid array subscript warning Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-31 15:44 ` [PATCH 4.9 03/12] staging: wilc1000: simplify vif[i]->ndev accesses Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-31 15:44 ` [PATCH 4.9 04/12] gcov: support GCC 7.1 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-31 15:44 ` [PATCH 4.9 06/12] arm64: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-31 15:44 ` [PATCH 4.9 08/12] arm64: fpsimd: Prevent registers leaking across exec Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-31 15:44 ` [PATCH 4.9 09/12] locking/spinlock/debug: Remove spinlock lockup detection code Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-31 15:44 ` [PATCH 4.9 10/12] scsi: sg: protect accesses to reserved page array Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-31 15:44 ` [PATCH 4.9 11/12] scsi: sg: reset res_in_use after unlinking reserved array Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-31 16:45 ` [PATCH 4.9 00/12] 4.9.47-stable review Sumit Semwal
2017-08-31 16:59   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-31 19:08 ` Shuah Khan
2017-09-01  5:02   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-01  2:32 ` Guenter Roeck

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