Re: memset argument order misuses

[Andrew Morton]

Joe Korty <joe.korty@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
> A simple 'grep memset.*\<0);' shows argument order errors in several uses
> of memset.
> 
> This grep was inspired by Al Viro's recent patch, megaraid_mbox fix,
> which fixed this problem in the megaraid driver.
> 

heh.  Lsydexic s/390 developers.  Thanks, I guess we should scoot this into
2.6.11.


> 
> Regards,
> Joe
> --
> "Money can buy bandwidth, but latency is forever" -- John Mashey
> 
> 
> 
> diff -Nura base/drivers/s390/block/dasd_genhd.c new/drivers/s390/block/dasd_genhd.c
> --- base/drivers/s390/block/dasd_genhd.c	2004-12-24 16:35:24.000000000 -0500
> +++ new/drivers/s390/block/dasd_genhd.c	2005-02-12 21:55:48.546192009 -0500
> @@ -149,8 +149,8 @@
>  	 * Can't call delete_partitions directly. Use ioctl.
>  	 * The ioctl also does locking and invalidation.
>  	 */
> -	memset(&bpart, sizeof(struct blkpg_partition), 0);
> -	memset(&barg, sizeof(struct blkpg_ioctl_arg), 0);
> +	memset(&bpart, 0, sizeof(struct blkpg_partition));
> +	memset(&barg, 0, sizeof(struct blkpg_ioctl_arg));
>  	barg.data = &bpart;
>  	barg.op = BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION;
>  	for (bpart.pno = device->gdp->minors - 1; bpart.pno > 0; bpart.pno--)
> diff -Nura base/drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c new/drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c
> --- base/drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c	2004-12-24 16:33:48.000000000 -0500
> +++ new/drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c	2005-02-12 21:56:08.430256458 -0500
> @@ -526,7 +526,7 @@
>  	time = get_clock() - cdev->private->cmb_start_time;
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(cdev->ccwlock, flags);
>  
> -	memset(data, sizeof(struct cmbdata), 0);
> +	memset(data, 0, sizeof(struct cmbdata));
>  
>  	/* we only know values before device_busy_time */
>  	data->size = offsetof(struct cmbdata, device_busy_time);
> @@ -736,7 +736,7 @@
>  	time = get_clock() - cdev->private->cmb_start_time;
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(cdev->ccwlock, flags);
>  
> -	memset (data, sizeof(struct cmbdata), 0);
> +	memset (data, 0, sizeof(struct cmbdata));
>  
>  	/* we only know values before device_busy_time */
>  	data->size = offsetof(struct cmbdata, device_busy_time);
> diff -Nura base/drivers/s390/cio/css.c new/drivers/s390/cio/css.c
> --- base/drivers/s390/cio/css.c	2005-02-12 21:51:28.000000000 -0500
> +++ new/drivers/s390/cio/css.c	2005-02-12 21:56:20.066538550 -0500
> @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@
>  	new_slow_sch = kmalloc(sizeof(struct slow_subchannel), GFP_ATOMIC);
>  	if (!new_slow_sch)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> -	memset(new_slow_sch, sizeof(struct slow_subchannel), 0);
> +	memset(new_slow_sch, 0, sizeof(struct slow_subchannel));
>  	new_slow_sch->schid = schid;
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&slow_subchannel_lock, flags);
>  	list_add_tail(&new_slow_sch->slow_list, &slow_subchannels_head);
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