Re: [PATCH] net: mac80211/cfg.c: fix error using of sizeof()

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Wed Feb 06 2013 - 14:28:23 EST


On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 13:33 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Cong Ding <dinggnu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:23:45 +0100
>
> > Using 'sizeof' on array given as function argument returns size of a pointer
> > rather than the size of array.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Cong Ding <dinggnu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > net/mac80211/cfg.c | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
> > index 661b878..af561d5 100644
> > --- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c
> > +++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c
> > @@ -2058,7 +2058,8 @@ static int ieee80211_set_mcast_rate(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
> > {
> > struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev);
> >
> > - memcpy(sdata->vif.bss_conf.mcast_rate, rate, sizeof(rate));
> > + memcpy(sdata->vif.bss_conf.mcast_rate, rate,
> > + sizeof(int) * IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS);
> >
>
> This is not indented properly. The "sizeof(int..." should start at the
> first column after the openning parenthesis of the memcpy() call.

Yeah I fixed it when I applied it ... oh well.

johannes


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