[PATCH 5/9] drivers/net/wireless: Correct code taking the size ofa pointer

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Sun Dec 13 2009 - 06:42:19 EST


From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

sizeof(iv16) and sizeof(iv32) are the sizes of pointers. Change them to
the size of the copied data.

A simplified version of the semantic patch that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression *x;
expression f;
type T;
@@

*f(...,(T)x,...)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
index eb1e1d0..1e74732 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c
@@ -2140,8 +2140,8 @@ static void rt2800_get_tkip_seq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u8 hw_key_idx,
rt2800_register_multiread(rt2x00dev, offset,
&iveiv_entry, sizeof(iveiv_entry));

- memcpy(&iveiv_entry.iv[0], iv16, sizeof(iv16));
- memcpy(&iveiv_entry.iv[4], iv32, sizeof(iv32));
+ memcpy(&iveiv_entry.iv[0], iv16, sizeof(*iv16));
+ memcpy(&iveiv_entry.iv[4], iv32, sizeof(*iv32));
}

static int rt2800_set_rts_threshold(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u32 value)
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