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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>, jdike@addtoit.com
Cc: richard@nod.at, anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com,
	linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] um: virt-pci: Fix the application of sizeof to pointer
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2021 10:20:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <93705335a3e6dcdb56de601df566445aa5bcb28e.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1630655468-71684-1-git-send-email-yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>

On Fri, 2021-09-03 at 15:51 +0800, Yang Li wrote:
> sizeof() when applied to a pointer typed expression gives the size of
> the pointer.
> 
> Clean up coccicheck warning:
> ./arch/um/drivers/virt-pci.c:192:20-26: ERROR: application of sizeof to
> pointer
> 

> -	memset(data, 0xff, sizeof(data));
> +	memset(data, 0xff, sizeof(*data));

Oops. I guess I only tested on 64-bit where this is the same, and in
fact on 32-bit it also wouldn't matter since you can't even do 64-bit
reads there :)

A Fixes: tag would be nice, but otherwise

Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

johannes



      reply	other threads:[~2021-09-03  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-03  7:51 [PATCH -next] um: virt-pci: Fix the application of sizeof to pointer Yang Li
2021-09-03  8:20 ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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