Re: [PATCH] ASoC: simple-card: Dereference pointer for memcpy sizeof in asoc_simple_card_probe

From: Kuninori Morimoto
Date: Thu Dec 13 2018 - 00:10:26 EST



Hi Nathan

> sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c:462:6: warning: argument to 'sizeof' in
> 'memcpy' call is the same pointer type 'struct asoc_simple_dai *' as the
> source; expected 'struct asoc_simple_dai' or an explicit length
> [-Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess]
> sizeof(priv->dai_props->cpu_dai));
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c:464:6: warning: argument to 'sizeof' in
> 'memcpy' call is the same pointer type 'struct asoc_simple_dai *' as the
> source; expected 'struct asoc_simple_dai' or an explicit length
> [-Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess]
> sizeof(priv->dai_props->codec_dai));
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 2 warnings generated.
>
> Commit 4fb7f4df49d3 ("ASoC: simple-card: use cpu/codec pointer on
> simple_dai_props") updated {cpu,codec}_dai to be pointers in struct
> simple_dai_props but didn't update these locations to dereference the
> pointers to get the proper size of their contents.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
> index 766123485d7c..d4738d3eb2f1 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card.c
> @@ -459,9 +459,9 @@ static int asoc_simple_card_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> dai_link->dai_fmt = cinfo->daifmt;
> dai_link->init = asoc_simple_card_dai_init;
> memcpy(&priv->dai_props->cpu_dai, &cinfo->cpu_dai,
> - sizeof(priv->dai_props->cpu_dai));
> + sizeof(*priv->dai_props->cpu_dai));
> memcpy(&priv->dai_props->codec_dai, &cinfo->codec_dai,
> - sizeof(priv->dai_props->codec_dai));
> + sizeof(*priv->dai_props->codec_dai));
> }

Ahh.. yes, simple-card is supporting non DT case, too.
Thank you for your patch.
But, I think "&priv->dai_props->codec_dai" need to fix, too.
And it needs to point cpu_dai/codec_dai.
Thank you for pointing it. I will fixup and post with your name.

Best regards
---
Kuninori Morimoto