Re: [PATCH] staging/iio: Use correct argument for sizeof

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Tue Jan 22 2013 - 06:58:06 EST


On 01/21/2013 09:14 PM, Peter Huewe wrote:
> found with coccicheck
> sizeof when applied to a pointer typed expression gives the size of
> the pointer
>
> The semantic patch that makes this output is available
> in scripts/coccinelle/misc/noderef.cocci.
>
> More information about semantic patching is available at
> http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@xxxxxx>
Added to togreg branch of iio.git

Thanks,
> ---
> drivers/staging/iio/iio_hwmon.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/iio_hwmon.c b/drivers/staging/iio/iio_hwmon.c
> index c7a5f97..97ad645 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/iio_hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/iio_hwmon.c
> @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static int iio_hwmon_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> while (st->channels[st->num_channels].indio_dev)
> st->num_channels++;
>
> - st->attrs = kzalloc(sizeof(st->attrs) * (st->num_channels + 1),
> + st->attrs = kzalloc(sizeof(*st->attrs) * (st->num_channels + 1),
> GFP_KERNEL);
> if (st->attrs == NULL) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
>
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