From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
To: linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com,
Steve Hodgson <shodgson@solarflare.com>,
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/9] drivers/net/sfc: Correct code taking the size of a pointer
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:41:29 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912131241130.24267@ask.diku.dk> (raw)
From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
The function efx_iterate_state contains the code
memcpy(&payload->msg, payload_msg, sizeof(payload_msg));
This is the only use of payload_msg. The type of payload_msg is
changed from a pointer to an array, so that the result of sizeof really is
the length of the string.
A simplified version of the semantic patch that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression *x;
expression f;
type T;
@@
*f(...,(T)x,...)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
---
drivers/net/sfc/selftest.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/selftest.c b/drivers/net/sfc/selftest.c
index 14949bb..af39335 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sfc/selftest.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sfc/selftest.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static const unsigned char payload_source[ETH_ALEN] = {
0x00, 0x0f, 0x53, 0x1b, 0x1b, 0x1b,
};
-static const char *payload_msg =
+static const char payload_msg[] =
"Hello world! This is an Efx loopback test in progress!";
/**
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2009-12-13 11:41 Julia Lawall [this message]
2009-12-14 3:57 ` David Miller
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