linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] security/selinux/ss: correct size computation

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Date:	Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:11:32 +1100 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
cc:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] security/selinux/ss: correct size computation

On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Julia Lawall wrote:

> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> 
> The size argument to kcalloc should be the size of desired structure,
> not the pointer to it.
> 
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @expression@
> expression *x;
> @@
> 
> x =
>  <+...
> -sizeof(x)
> +sizeof(*x)
> ...+>// </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>


Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next


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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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