Re: [PATCH linux-next] firmware/psci: fix application of sizeof to pointer

[Gustavo A. R. Silva]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:58:24AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 07:30:16PM -0700, jing yangyang wrote:
> > sizeof when applied to a pointer typed expression gives the size of
> > the pointer.
> > 
> > ./drivers/firmware/psci/psci_checker.c:158:41-47: ERROR application of sizeof to pointer
> > 
> > This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: jing yangyang <jing.yangyang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> >From looking at the git history, we should add:
> 
>   Fixes: 7401056de5f8d4ea ("drivers/firmware: psci_checker: stash and use topology_core_cpumask for hotplug tests)"
> 
> With that:
> 
>   Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Lorenzo, how do we normally direct these patches?

It seems that these patches are consistently being ignored[1][2][3]. So,
I'll take this in my -next tree[4] before it gets lost again.

Thanks
--
Gustavo

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200917081353.2083241-1-liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1606179525-63938-1-git-send-email-tiantao6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211012024229.180058-1-davidcomponentone@xxxxxxxxx/
[4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux.git/log/?h=for-next/kspp-misc-fixes

> 
> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/firmware/psci/psci_checker.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/firmware/psci/psci_checker.c b/drivers/firmware/psci/psci_checker.c
> > index 9a369a2..116eb46 100644
> > --- a/drivers/firmware/psci/psci_checker.c
> > +++ b/drivers/firmware/psci/psci_checker.c
> > @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ static int alloc_init_cpu_groups(cpumask_var_t **pcpu_groups)
> >  	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&tmp, GFP_KERNEL))
> >  		return -ENOMEM;
> >  
> > -	cpu_groups = kcalloc(nb_available_cpus, sizeof(cpu_groups),
> > +	cpu_groups = kcalloc(nb_available_cpus, sizeof(*cpu_groups),
> >  			     GFP_KERNEL);
> >  	if (!cpu_groups) {
> >  		free_cpumask_var(tmp);
> > -- 
> > 1.8.3.1
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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