linux-kernel - [PATCH] relay: use sizeof(size_t), not sizeof(size_t *) in relay_create

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Date:	Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:42:51 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
cc:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: [PATCH] relay: use sizeof(size_t), not sizeof(size_t *) in
 relay_create_buf()

A number of size_t's is what we want to allocate memory for, not a
number of size_t pointers (at least as far as I can tell).
Now, depending on platform, sizeof(size_t *) may be >= sizeof(size_t)
so things actually work, but that's not really a portable assumption,
so let's use the value we actually mean.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
---
 kernel/relay.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/relay.c b/kernel/relay.c
index e8cd202..806931b 100644
--- a/kernel/relay.c
+++ b/kernel/relay.c
@@ -166,13 +166,13 @@ static struct rchan_buf *relay_create_buf(struct rchan *chan)
 {
 	struct rchan_buf *buf;
 
-	if (chan->n_subbufs > UINT_MAX / sizeof(size_t *))
+	if (chan->n_subbufs > UINT_MAX / sizeof(size_t))
 		return NULL;
 
 	buf = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rchan_buf), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!buf)
 		return NULL;
-	buf->padding = kmalloc(chan->n_subbufs * sizeof(size_t *), GFP_KERNEL);
+	buf->padding = kmalloc(chan->n_subbufs * sizeof(size_t), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!buf->padding)
 		goto free_buf;
 
-- 
1.7.1


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