Re: [PATCH] Fix incorrect memset in bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp

From: Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi
Date: Mon Sep 03 2012 - 21:21:42 EST


On 9/3/2012 11:50 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
gcc 4.8 warns because the memset only clears sizeof(char *) bytes, not
the whole buffer. Use the correct buffer size and clear the whole sense
buffer.

/backup/lsrc/git/linux-lto-2.6/drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_io.c: In
function 'bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp':
/backup/lsrc/git/linux-lto-2.6/drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_io.c:1810:41:
warning: argument to 'sizeof' in 'memset' call is the same expression as
the destination; did you mean to provide an explicit length?
[-Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess]
memset(sc_cmd->sense_buffer, 0, sizeof(sc_cmd->sense_buffer));
^

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_io.c b/drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_io.c
index 73f231c..8d4626c 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_io.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_io.c
@@ -1807,7 +1807,7 @@ static void bnx2fc_parse_fcp_rsp(struct bnx2fc_cmd *io_req,
fcp_sns_len = SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE;
}

- memset(sc_cmd->sense_buffer, 0, sizeof(sc_cmd->sense_buffer));
+ memset(sc_cmd->sense_buffer, 0, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE);
if (fcp_sns_len)
memcpy(sc_cmd->sense_buffer, rq_data, fcp_sns_len);


Thanks Andi. Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi <bprakash@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


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