Re: [STAGING] slicoss - use kzalloc

[Lior Dotan]

> On 11/05/2008 10:27 AM, Lior Dotan wrote:
> > This patch uses kzalloc() where really applicable.
>
> ack this, but there is another problem.
>
> sizeof(struct physcard *) is wrong size for that allocation, care to send a fix
> for this (and revice the rest of allocations)? I wonder how this could work with
Fix attached. I only found two other places with the same problem.

> SLAB_DEBUG on, maybe nobody tried...
AFAIK there aren't a lot of testers for this drivers so the few that 
does probably didn't try it.



Fix sizeof to use the right type

Signed-off-by: Lior Dotan <liodot@xxxxxxxxx>
--- b/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c	2008-11-05 11:39:42.017791088 +0200
+++ a/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c	2008-11-05 11:48:16.237808996 +0200
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ static void slic_init_adapter(struct net
 	index, pslic_handle, adapter->pfree_slic_handles, pslic_handle->next);*/
 	adapter->pshmem = (struct slic_shmem *)
 					pci_alloc_consistent(adapter->pcidev,
-					sizeof(struct slic_shmem *),
+					sizeof(struct slic_shmem),
 					&adapter->
 					phys_shmem);
 /*
@@ -1432,7 +1432,7 @@ static void slic_init_cleanup(struct ada
 		DBG_MSG("adapter[%p] port %d pshmem[%p] FreeShmem ",
 			adapter, adapter->port, (void *) adapter->pshmem);
 		pci_free_consistent(adapter->pcidev,
-				    sizeof(struct slic_shmem *),
+				    sizeof(struct slic_shmem),
 				    adapter->pshmem, adapter->phys_shmem);
 		adapter->pshmem = NULL;
 		adapter->phys_shmem = (dma_addr_t) NULL;
@@ -2833,7 +2833,7 @@ static u32 slic_card_locate(struct adapt
 	}
 	if (!physcard) {
 		/* no structure allocated for this physical card yet */
-		physcard = kzalloc(sizeof(struct physcard *), GFP_ATOMIC);
+		physcard = kzalloc(sizeof(struct physcard), GFP_ATOMIC);
 		ASSERT(physcard);
 
 		DBG_MSG