linux-kernel - [PATCH 13/13] perf tests: Do not use sizeof on pointer type

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Date:	Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:57:41 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Vaishali Thakkar <vaishali.thakkar@...cle.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 13/13] perf tests: Do not use sizeof on pointer type

From: Vaishali Thakkar <vaishali.thakkar@...cle.com>

Using sizeof on a malloced pointer type will return the wordsize which
can often cause one to allocate a buffer much smaller than it is needed.
So, here do not use sizeof on pointer type.

Note that this has no effect on runtime because 'dsos' is a pointer to a
pointer.

Problem found using Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Vaishali Thakkar <vaishali.thakkar@...cle.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461862017-23358-1-git-send-email-vaishali.thakkar@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/tests/dso-data.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/dso-data.c b/tools/perf/tests/dso-data.c
index dc673ff7c437..8cf0d9e189a8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/dso-data.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/dso-data.c
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static int dsos__create(int cnt, int size)
 {
 	int i;
 
-	dsos = malloc(sizeof(dsos) * cnt);
+	dsos = malloc(sizeof(*dsos) * cnt);
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("failed to alloc dsos array", dsos);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) {
-- 
2.5.5