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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/mm/mem_encrypt_identity : fix error useage to sizeof
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On 15/01/2019 11:25, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2019, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> On 15/01/2019 11:13, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Mon, 7 Jan 2019, peng.hao2@zte.com.cn wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> Fix error usage to sizeof. It should not use sizeof to pointer.
>>>>>
>>>>> .... because?
>>>>>
>>>>> The commit message needs to explain what the potential issue could be
>>>>> and why it doesn't matter in this case.
>>>> I see the definition of pte_t may be more than sizeof(unsigned long).
>>>> So I think sizeof(pte_t) is safer.
>>>
>>> What exactly is the difference between:
>>>
>>> pte_t *p;
>>>
>>> sizeof(*p)
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> sizeof(pte_t)
>>>
>>> and what is safer about the latter?
>>
>> Please note that the current code is using sizeof(p) instead of sizeof(*p).
>
> Ooops. That's wrong indeed, but we should not change it to sizeof(pte_t)
> and change it to sizeof(*p) instead.

And that's what the patch does.


Juergen

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