From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Memset should be given the size of the structure, not the size of the pointer. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ type T; T *x; expression E; @@ memset(x, E, sizeof( + * x)) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- crypto/gf128mul.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/crypto/gf128mul.c b/crypto/gf128mul.c --- a/crypto/gf128mul.c +++ b/crypto/gf128mul.c @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ void gf128mul_lle(be128 *r, const be128 for (i = 0; i < 7; ++i) gf128mul_x_lle(&p[i + 1], &p[i]); - memset(r, 0, sizeof(r)); + memset(r, 0, sizeof(*r)); for (i = 0;;) { u8 ch = ((u8 *)b)[15 - i]; @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ void gf128mul_bbe(be128 *r, const be128 for (i = 0; i < 7; ++i) gf128mul_x_bbe(&p[i + 1], &p[i]); - memset(r, 0, sizeof(r)); + memset(r, 0, sizeof(*r)); for (i = 0;;) { u8 ch = ((u8 *)b)[i]; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html