From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59596 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PlS7u-0001yd-0c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:19:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PlS7s-0006Kc-MS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:19:29 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f173.google.com ([209.85.210.173]:43821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PlS7s-0006KW-EM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:19:28 -0500 Received: by iye19 with SMTP id 19so2666848iye.4 for ; Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:19:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D4C5F47.8060700@codemonkey.ws> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:19:19 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block/vdi: Fix wrong size in conditionally used memset, memcmp References: <1296849676-7429-1-git-send-email-weil@mail.berlios.de> In-Reply-To: <1296849676-7429-1-git-send-email-weil@mail.berlios.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Weil Cc: Kevin Wolf , QEMU Developers On 02/04/2011 02:01 PM, Stefan Weil wrote: > Error report from cppcheck: > block/vdi.c:122: error: Using sizeof for array given as function argument returns the size of pointer. > block/vdi.c:128: error: Using sizeof for array given as function argument returns the size of pointer. > > Fix both by setting the correct size. > > The buggy code is only used when QEMU is build without uuid support. > The bug is not critical, so there is no urgent need to apply it to > old versions of QEMU. > > Cc: Kevin Wolf > Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil > Huh, I wouldn't have thought this was the case. I almost feel that doing a #define UUID_SIZE may be better because sizeof(typeof(v)) != sizeof(v) is weird even by C standards. Regards, Anthony Liguori > --- > block/vdi.c | 4 ++-- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/block/vdi.c b/block/vdi.c > index 83b9c04..083266e 100644 > --- a/block/vdi.c > +++ b/block/vdi.c > @@ -119,13 +119,13 @@ void uuid_unparse(const uuid_t uu, char *out); > #if !defined(CONFIG_UUID) > void uuid_generate(uuid_t out) > { > - memset(out, 0, sizeof(out)); > + memset(out, 0, sizeof(uuid_t)); > } > > int uuid_is_null(const uuid_t uu) > { > uuid_t null_uuid = { 0 }; > - return memcmp(uu, null_uuid, sizeof(uu)) == 0; > + return memcmp(uu, null_uuid, sizeof(uuid_t)) == 0; > } > > void uuid_unparse(const uuid_t uu, char *out) >