linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/10] MIPS: BCM47XX: Cocci spatch "noderef"

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Message-ID: <1379604755851-1504037195-1-diffsplit-thomas@m3y3r.de>
Date:	Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:45:46 +0200
From:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
To:	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/10] MIPS: BCM47XX: Cocci spatch "noderef"

sizeof when applied to a pointer typed expression gives the size of the
pointer.
Found by coccinelle spatch "misc/noderef.cocci"

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
---

diff -u -p a/arch/mips/bcm47xx/sprom.c b/arch/mips/bcm47xx/sprom.c
--- a/arch/mips/bcm47xx/sprom.c
+++ b/arch/mips/bcm47xx/sprom.c
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ static void nvram_read_alpha2(const char
 		pr_warn("alpha2 is too long %s\n", buf);
 		return;
 	}
-	memcpy(val, buf, sizeof(val));
+	memcpy(val, buf, sizeof(*val));
 }
 
 static void bcm47xx_fill_sprom_r1234589(struct ssb_sprom *sprom,
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