RE: [PATCH 2/4] drivers/staging/mei/interface.c: take size of pointed value, not pointer

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julia Lawall [mailto:julia@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 9:58 AM
> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman
> Cc: kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Winkler, Tomas; Weil, Oren jer; Tzeel-
> Krupp, Itzhak; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH 2/4] drivers/staging/mei/interface.c: take size of pointed
> value, not pointer
> 
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Sizeof a pointer-typed expression returns the size of the pointer, not that of
> the pointed data.
> 
> The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression *e;
> type T;
> identifier f;
> @@
> 
> f(...,(T)e,...,
> -sizeof(e)
> +sizeof(*e)
> ,...)
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>

> 
> ---
>  drivers/staging/mei/interface.c |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/mei/interface.c b/drivers/staging/mei/interface.c
> --- a/drivers/staging/mei/interface.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/mei/interface.c
> @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ int mei_send_flow_control(struct mei_dev
>  	mei_hdr->reserved = 0;
> 
>  	mei_flow_control = (struct hbm_flow_control *) &dev-
> >wr_msg_buf[1];
> -	memset(mei_flow_control, 0, sizeof(mei_flow_control));
> +	memset(mei_flow_control, 0, sizeof(*mei_flow_control));
>  	mei_flow_control->host_addr = cl->host_client_id;
>  	mei_flow_control->me_addr = cl->me_client_id;
>  	mei_flow_control->cmd.cmd = MEI_FLOW_CONTROL_CMD; @@ -
> 396,7 +396,7 @@ int mei_disconnect(struct mei_device *de
> 
>  	mei_cli_disconnect =
>  	    (struct hbm_client_disconnect_request *) &dev->wr_msg_buf[1];
> -	memset(mei_cli_disconnect, 0, sizeof(mei_cli_disconnect));
> +	memset(mei_cli_disconnect, 0, sizeof(*mei_cli_disconnect));
>  	mei_cli_disconnect->host_addr = cl->host_client_id;
>  	mei_cli_disconnect->me_addr = cl->me_client_id;
>  	mei_cli_disconnect->cmd.cmd = CLIENT_DISCONNECT_REQ_CMD;

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