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> --- arch/arm/plat-mxc/dma-mx1-mx2.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -u -p a/arch/arm/plat-mxc/dma-mx1-mx2.c b/arch/arm/plat-mxc/dma-mx1-mx2.c --- a/arch/arm/plat-mxc/dma-mx1-mx2.c +++ b/arch/arm/plat-mxc/dma-mx1-mx2.c @@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ int imx_dma_request(int channel, const c local_irq_restore(flags); return -EBUSY; } - memset(imxdma, 0, sizeof(imxdma)); + memset(imxdma, 0, sizeof(*imxdma)); imxdma->name = name; local_irq_restore(flags); /* request_irq() can block */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
