linux-kernel - [PATCH 7/9] drivers/video: Correct code taking the size of a pointer

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Date:	Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:42:41 +0100 (CET)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
To:	JosephChan@....com.tw, Scott Fang <ScottFang@...tech.com.cn>,
	linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 7/9] drivers/video: Correct code taking the size of a pointer

From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

sizeof(viafb_gamma_table) is just the size of the pointer.  This is changed
to the size used when calling kmalloc to initialize the pointer.

A simplified version of the semantic patch that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression *x;
expression f;
type T;
@@

*f(...,(T)x,...)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

---
 drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c        |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c b/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c
index 56ec696..a0b47f1 100644
--- a/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ static int viafb_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, u_int cmd, u_long arg)
 		if (!viafb_gamma_table)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		if (copy_from_user(viafb_gamma_table, argp,
-				sizeof(viafb_gamma_table))) {
+				256 * sizeof(u32))) {
 			kfree(viafb_gamma_table);
 			return -EFAULT;
 		}
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ static int viafb_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, u_int cmd, u_long arg)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		viafb_get_gamma_table(viafb_gamma_table);
 		if (copy_to_user(argp, viafb_gamma_table,
-			sizeof(viafb_gamma_table))) {
+			256 * sizeof(u32))) {
 			kfree(viafb_gamma_table);
 			return -EFAULT;
 		}
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