Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Fix memset using sizeof(ptr) notsizeof(*ptr)

From: Larry Finger
Date: Mon May 09 2011 - 12:02:30 EST


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
index 79c98f6..c16fc1c 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);

ACK.

Larry
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