linux-kernel - [PATCH] Fix application of sizeof to pointer

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Date:   Tue, 12 Oct 2021 11:01:16 +0800
From:   davidcomponentone@...il.com
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     shuah@...nel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        David Yang <davidcomponentone@...il.com>,
        Zeal Robot <zealci@....com.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] Fix application of sizeof to pointer

From: David Yang <davidcomponentone@...il.com>

The coccinelle check report:
"./tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c:344:36-42:
ERROR: application of sizeof to pointer"
Using the "strlen" to fix it.

Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@....com.cn>
Signed-off-by: David Yang <davidcomponentone@...il.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c
index 1af16d2c2a0a..52497b7b9f1d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ void split_file_backed_thp(void)
 	}
 
 	/* write something to the file, so a file-backed THP can be allocated */
-	num_written = write(fd, tmpfs_loc, sizeof(tmpfs_loc));
+	num_written = write(fd, tmpfs_loc, strlen(tmpfs_loc) + 1);
 	close(fd);
 
 	if (num_written < 1) {
-- 
2.30.2