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SubjectRe: sizeof(ptr) or sizeof(*ptr)?
Andrew Morton wrote:
> "" <pmarques@grupopie.com> wrote:
>
>>Anyway, after improving the tool and checking for false positives, there is only
>> one more suspicious piece of code in drivers/acpi/video.c:561
>>
>> status = acpi_video_device_lcd_query_levels(device, &obj);
>>
>> if (obj && obj->type == ACPI_TYPE_PACKAGE && obj->package.count >= 2) {
>> int count = 0;
>> union acpi_object *o;
>>
>> br = kmalloc(sizeof &br, GFP_KERNEL);
>
>
> yup, bug.
>
>
>> if (!br) {
>> printk(KERN_ERR "can't allocate memory\n");
>> } else {
>> memset(br, 0, sizeof &br);
>> br->levels = kmalloc(obj->package.count * sizeof &br->levels, GFP_KERNEL);
>
>
> And another one, although it happens to work out OK.
>
> I'll get these all fixed up, thanks.

I just checked the 2.6.11-mm1 release and this is only half-fixed there,
and it is the worst of both halves: the kmalloc only mallocs the size of
a pointer, but the memset is fixed, so it memset's the size of a
structure (oops). This is partially my fault for not sending the patch
in the first place, together with the bug report.

The attached patch against 2.6.11-mm1 should fix the kmalloc.

By the way, I haven't got any response from an alsa developer about the
bug in sound/core/control.c, but this is already fixed in 2.6.11-mm1,
along with several other changes to that file. So the status is: it was
a bug, but it is already fixed :)

--
Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
--- ./drivers/acpi/video.c.orig 2005-03-08 13:07:42.000000000 +0000
+++ ./drivers/acpi/video.c 2005-03-08 13:09:05.000000000 +0000
@@ -564,11 +564,11 @@ acpi_video_device_find_cap (struct acpi_
int count = 0;
union acpi_object *o;

- br = kmalloc(sizeof &br, GFP_KERNEL);
+ br = kmalloc(sizeof(*br), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!br) {
printk(KERN_ERR "can't allocate memory\n");
} else {
- memset(br, 0, sizeof *br);
+ memset(br, 0, sizeof(*br));
br->levels = kmalloc(obj->package.count *
sizeof *(br->levels), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!br->levels)
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