linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf tests: Do not use sizeof on pointer type

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Date:	Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:36:04 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:	Vaishali Thakkar <vaishali.thakkar@...cle.com>
Cc:	peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com,
	alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tests: Do not use sizeof on pointer type

Em Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:16:57PM +0530, Vaishali Thakkar escreveu:
> Using sizeof on a malloced pointer type will return the wordsize
> which can often cause one to allocate a buffer much smaller than
> it is needed. So, here do not use sizeof on pointer type.
> 
> Note that this has no effect on runtime because 'dsos' is a
> pointer to a pointer.
> 
> Problem found using Coccinelle.

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo