Re: [PATCH] cciss: fix invalid use of sizeof incciss_find_cfgtables()

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Mar 22 2013 - 11:11:29 EST


On Thu, Mar 14 2013, scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:19:45PM +0800, Wei Yongjun wrote:
> > From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > sizeof() when applied to a pointer typed expression gives the
> > size of the pointer, not that of the pointed data.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/block/cciss.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> > index ade58bc..1c1b8e5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
> > +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> > @@ -4206,7 +4206,7 @@ static int cciss_find_cfgtables(ctlr_info_t *h)
> > if (rc)
> > return rc;
> > h->cfgtable = remap_pci_mem(pci_resource_start(h->pdev,
> > - cfg_base_addr_index) + cfg_offset, sizeof(h->cfgtable));
> > + cfg_base_addr_index) + cfg_offset, sizeof(*h->cfgtable));
> > if (!h->cfgtable)
> > return -ENOMEM;
> > rc = write_driver_ver_to_cfgtable(h->cfgtable);
> >
>
> Ack.
>
> I suppose it has worked all this time because ioremap can't map less
> than a page, and sizeof(*h->cfgtable) is less than a page, and likely
> starts on a page boundary.

Queued up for 3.9, thanks.

--
Jens Axboe

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