From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> In each case, the destination of the allocation has type struct **, so the elements of the array should have pointer type, not structure type. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @disable sizeof_type_expr@ type T; T **x; @@ x = <+...sizeof( - T + *x )...+> // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c | 4 ++-- drivers/scsi/ch.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c~drivers-scsi-correct-the-size-argument-to-kmalloc drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c --- a/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c~drivers-scsi-correct-the-size-argument-to-kmalloc +++ a/drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_init.c @@ -688,9 +688,9 @@ static int asd_register_sas_ha(struct as { int i; struct asd_sas_phy **sas_phys = - kmalloc(ASD_MAX_PHYS * sizeof(struct asd_sas_phy), GFP_KERNEL); + kcalloc(ASD_MAX_PHYS, sizeof(*sas_phys), GFP_KERNEL); struct asd_sas_port **sas_ports = - kmalloc(ASD_MAX_PHYS * sizeof(struct asd_sas_port), GFP_KERNEL); + kcalloc(ASD_MAX_PHYS, sizeof(*sas_ports), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sas_phys || !sas_ports) { kfree(sas_phys); diff -puN drivers/scsi/ch.c~drivers-scsi-correct-the-size-argument-to-kmalloc drivers/scsi/ch.c --- a/drivers/scsi/ch.c~drivers-scsi-correct-the-size-argument-to-kmalloc +++ a/drivers/scsi/ch.c @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ ch_readconfig(scsi_changer *ch) } /* look up the devices of the data transfer elements */ - ch->dt = kmalloc(ch->counts[CHET_DT]*sizeof(struct scsi_device), + ch->dt = kcalloc(ch->counts[CHET_DT], sizeof(*ch->dt), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ch->dt) { _ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
