linux-kernel - Re: Memset of length zero bugs

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Date:	Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:45:21 +0200
From:	Török Edwin <edwintorok@...il.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Memset of length zero bugs

On 2009-11-26 13:07, Török Edwin wrote:
> On 2009-11-11 23:57, Dave Jones wrote:
>   
>> Nearly every invocation of memset in drivers/staging/hv/StorVsc.c
>> has it's arguments the wrong way around.
>>     
> Hi,
>
> I found 2 more bugs like this in v2.6.32-rc8-11-ga8a8a66 by letting gcc
> warn in such cases on an allyesconfig build.
> I used the attached patch (meant to be used only to find bugs, linking
> fails).
>   

Forgot to mention that this code is the one from glibc (2.10.1)'s memset.

Best regards,
--Edwin
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