Re: [PATCH (2) 05/34] open_by_handle_at.2: Use sizeof consistently

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Hello Alex,

On 9/4/20 12:55 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>>From 0176a7981aead1a202d5d0295b074e165b0d39dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 21:27:55 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 05/34] open_by_handle_at.2: Use sizeof consistently
> 
> Use ``sizeof`` consistently through all the examples in the following
> way:
> 
> - Use the name of the variable instead of its type as argument for
>   ``sizeof``.
> 
> 	Rationale:
> 	https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.8/process/coding-style.html#allocating-memory
>

Well the page was already quite inconsistent, wasn't it, since
"sizeof(*fhp)" was already used elsewhere in the example!

Patch applied.

Thanks,

Michael

> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  man2/open_by_handle_at.2 | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/open_by_handle_at.2 b/man2/open_by_handle_at.2
> index 78c3220f8..846957acf 100644
> --- a/man2/open_by_handle_at.2
> +++ b/man2/open_by_handle_at.2
> @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
> 
>      /* Reallocate file_handle structure with correct size */
> 
> -    fhsize = sizeof(struct file_handle) + fhp\->handle_bytes;
> +    fhsize = sizeof(*fhp) + fhp\->handle_bytes;
>      fhp = realloc(fhp, fhsize);         /* Copies fhp\->handle_bytes */
>      if (fhp == NULL)
>          errExit("realloc");
> @@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
> 
>      /* Given handle_bytes, we can now allocate file_handle structure */
> 
> -    fhp = malloc(sizeof(struct file_handle) + handle_bytes);
> +    fhp = malloc(sizeof(*fhp) + handle_bytes);
>      if (fhp == NULL)
>          errExit("malloc");
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/



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