Misuses of ** ? (was Re: [PATCH 1/1] ASoC: Intel: Atom: add a missing star in a memcpy call)

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Aug 28 2016 - 13:50:46 EST


On Sun, 2016-08-28 at 19:39 +0200, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
> In sst_prepare_and_post_msg(), when a response is received in "block",
> the following code gets executed:
>
>     *data = kzalloc(block->size, GFP_KERNEL);
>     memcpy(data, (void *) block->data, block->size);

Yuck, thanks.

Julia, Dan, could cocci or smatch help find any other
similar misuses here?