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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/10] iio: at91_adc: Cocci spatch "noderef"
On 20/09/2013 20:42, Jonathan Cameron :
> On 09/20/13 19:36, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 09/20/13 08:26, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
>>> On 19/09/2013 23:42, Thomas Meyer :
>>>> sizeof when applied to a pointer typed expression gives the size of the
>>>> pointer.
>>>> Found by coccinelle spatch "misc/noderef.cocci"
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
>> Applied to the fixes-togreg branch of
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git
>
> Actually, change of plan. Applied to the togreg branch of that
> tree. Whilst technically more correct to have it as you say,
> we are dealing with the size of a struct iio_trig ** vs
> a struct iio_trig * so it isn't actually a bug, just a
> less than ideal bit of code ;)

Absolutely.

> It was so obviously a fix I didn't initially check if it
> was a 'real' bug or not. oops.

Yes, I took this path myself as well ;-)

Bye,


>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> diff -u -p a/drivers/iio/adc/at91_adc.c b/drivers/iio/adc/at91_adc.c
>>>> --- a/drivers/iio/adc/at91_adc.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/at91_adc.c
>>>> @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static int at91_adc_trigger_init(struct
>>>> int i, ret;
>>>>
>>>> st->trig = devm_kzalloc(&idev->dev,
>>>> - st->trigger_number * sizeof(st->trig),
>>>> + st->trigger_number * sizeof(*st->trig),
>>>> GFP_KERNEL);
>>>>
>>>> if (st->trig == NULL) {
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Nicolas Ferre


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