Re: [PATCH 4/9] drivers/net/sfc: Correct code taking the size of a pointer

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From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:41:29 +0100 (CET)

> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> 
> The function efx_iterate_state contains the code
> memcpy(&payload->msg, payload_msg, sizeof(payload_msg));
> This is the only use of payload_msg.  The type of payload_msg is
> changed from a pointer to an array, so that the result of sizeof really is
> the length of the string.
> 
> A simplified version of the semantic patch that finds this problem is as
> follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

Applied.
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