Re: [PATCH 4/5] tools/perf/util: correct size computation

[walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>]

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