linux-kernel - Misuses of ** ? (was Re: [PATCH 1/1] ASoC: Intel: Atom: add a missing star in a memcpy call)

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Date:   Sun, 28 Aug 2016 10:50:36 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@....org>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Dan Capenter <error27@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Misuses of ** ? (was Re: [PATCH 1/1] ASoC: Intel: Atom: add a
 missing star in a memcpy call)

On Sun, 2016-08-28 at 19:39 +0200, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
> In sst_prepare_and_post_msg(), when a response is received in "block",
> the following code gets executed:
> 
>     *data = kzalloc(block->size, GFP_KERNEL);
>     memcpy(data, (void *) block->data, block->size);

Yuck, thanks.

Julia, Dan, could cocci or smatch help find any other
similar misuses here?