linux-kernel - [PATCH] drivers/video/backlight: memset region size error

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Message-ID: <4AC76178.8090302@computer.org>
Date:	Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:36:40 +0200
From:	Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@...puter.org>
To:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] drivers/video/backlight: memset region size error

>From 61755f56b829f59a40f9d30799651f80a3554104 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@...puter.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 16:00:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] drivers/video/backlight: memset region size error

The size of the region to be memset() should be the size
of the target rather than the size of the pointer to it.

Compile-tested only.

Signed-off-by: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@...puter.org>

---
 drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c b/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c
index b644947..a482dd7 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static int fb_notifier_callback(struct notifier_block *self,
 
 static int lcd_register_fb(struct lcd_device *ld)
 {
-	memset(&ld->fb_notif, 0, sizeof(&ld->fb_notif));
+	memset(&ld->fb_notif, 0, sizeof(ld->fb_notif));
 	ld->fb_notif.notifier_call = fb_notifier_callback;
 	return fb_register_client(&ld->fb_notif);
 }
-- 
1.5.4.3
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