linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] kconfig/symbol.c: use correct pointer type argument for sizeof

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Date:   Wed,  8 Nov 2017 22:09:59 +0100
From:   Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>
To:     "Yann E . MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@...e.fr>
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] kconfig/symbol.c: use correct pointer type argument for sizeof

sym_arr is of type struct symbol **.
So in malloc we need sizeof(struct symbol *).

The problem was indicated by coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>
---
 scripts/kconfig/symbol.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c b/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
index 20136ffefb23..3c8bd9bb4267 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/symbol.c
@@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ struct symbol **sym_re_search(const char *pattern)
 	}
 	if (sym_match_arr) {
 		qsort(sym_match_arr, cnt, sizeof(struct sym_match), sym_rel_comp);
-		sym_arr = malloc((cnt+1) * sizeof(struct symbol));
+		sym_arr = malloc((cnt+1) * sizeof(struct symbol *));
 		if (!sym_arr)
 			goto sym_re_search_free;
 		for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++)
-- 
2.14.2