netdev - Re: Inconsistent use of size argument in kzalloc and memcpy in 'drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic

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Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:26:08 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Cc:	geoff@...radead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Inconsistent use of size argument in kzalloc and memcpy in
 'drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_wireless.c'

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:00:04PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while looking at potential clean-up, I ended on the following code
> which looks spurious to me.
> 
> We allocate 'be16_to_cpu(scan_info->size)' bytes, but then copy
> 'scan_info->size'.
> This is not consistent.
> 

Good catch.  be16_to_cpu(scan_info->size) is correct.  It's surprising
that this bug wasn't caught in testing...

regards,
dan carpenter