From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> sizeof(chid) is just the size of the pointer. Change it to the size of the referenced structure. A simplified version of the semantic patch that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression *x; expression f; type T; @@ *f(...,(T)x,...) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/wusbcore/mmc.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/wusbcore/mmc.c b/drivers/usb/wusbcore/mmc.c index 3b52161..2d82739 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/wusbcore/mmc.c +++ b/drivers/usb/wusbcore/mmc.c @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ int wusbhc_chid_set(struct wusbhc *wusbhc, const struct wusb_ckhdid *chid) { int result = 0; - if (memcmp(chid, &wusb_ckhdid_zero, sizeof(chid)) == 0) + if (memcmp(chid, &wusb_ckhdid_zero, sizeof(*chid)) == 0) chid = NULL; mutex_lock(&wusbhc->mutex); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html