From julia@diku.dk Fri Dec 18 10:19:39 2009 From: Julia Lawall Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:25:04 +0100 (CET) Subject: Staging: wlan-ng: fix Correct size given to memset To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: From: Julia Lawall Memset should be given the size of the structure, not the size of the pointer. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ type T; T *x; expression E; @@ memset(x, E, sizeof( + * x)) // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2fw.c @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ void free_chunks(imgchunk_t *fchunk, uns } } *nfchunks = 0; - memset(fchunk, 0, sizeof(fchunk)); + memset(fchunk, 0, sizeof(*fchunk)); }