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Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:51:57 +1000 (EST)
From: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
cc: Ken Ashcraft <kash@stanford.edu>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] Passing wrong size to memcpy/memset
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On Wed, 14 May 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Ken Ashcraft <kash@stanford.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I'm with the Stanford Metacompilation research group and I wrote a checker
> > that looks for places where people use 'sizeof(ptr)' instead of
> > 'sizeof(*ptr)' as the length argument to memcpy/memset. 
> 
> Well they all look like genuine bugs.  It could be that some code is just
> performing overly-paranoid memsets.
> 
> I shall submit the below lot unless squeaked at.

No squeaks from me.

Ken, would you please try and Cc: maintainers for future reports?


- James
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James Morris
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