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Re: [PATCH V2] rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix memset/memcpy using sizeof(ptr) not sizeof(*ptr)

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On 05/09/2011 12:09 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 11:02 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
On 05/09/2011 12:43 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
Found via coccinelle script
@@
type T;
T* ptr;
expression E1;
@@
* memset(E1, 0, sizeof(ptr));
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches<joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
   drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c |    2 +-
   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ static void _rtl_rx_process(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
[]
+	memset(rx_status, 0, sizeof(*rx_status));
ACK.

Hey Larry.

If this is correct, then probably the memcpy at the
end of the routine needs conversion too.

---

  drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c |    4 ++--
  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
index 79c98f6..3a92ba3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ static void _rtl_rx_process(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
  	__le16 fc;
  	struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr;

-	memset(rx_status, 0, sizeof(rx_status));
+	memset(rx_status, 0, sizeof(*rx_status));
  	rxdesc	= skb->data;
  	skb_len	= skb->len;
  	drvinfo_len = (GET_RX_DESC_DRVINFO_SIZE(rxdesc) * RTL_RX_DRV_INFO_UNIT);
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ static void _rtl_rx_process(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb)
  		 "0x%02X\n", fc, (u32)hdr->addr1[0], (u32)hdr->addr1[1],
  		 (u32)hdr->addr1[2], (u32)hdr->addr1[3], (u32)hdr->addr1[4],
  		 (u32)hdr->addr1[5]));
-	memcpy(IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb),&rx_status, sizeof(rx_status));
+	memcpy(IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb), rx_status, sizeof(*rx_status));
  	ieee80211_rx_irqsafe(hw, skb);
  }

Yes it does. After you posted V1 of the patch, I reviewed all the sizeof() calls in the rtlwifi tree and found the second one at line 437.

ACK for V2 once the commit message is fixed.

Larry
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