[PATCH 7/9] drivers/video: Correct code taking the size of a pointer

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Sun Dec 13 2009 - 06:42:53 EST


From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

sizeof(viafb_gamma_table) is just the size of the pointer. This is changed
to the size used when calling kmalloc to initialize the pointer.

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/video/via/viafbdev.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c b/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c
index 56ec696..a0b47f1 100644
--- a/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ static int viafb_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, u_int cmd, u_long arg)
if (!viafb_gamma_table)
return -ENOMEM;
if (copy_from_user(viafb_gamma_table, argp,
- sizeof(viafb_gamma_table))) {
+ 256 * sizeof(u32))) {
kfree(viafb_gamma_table);
return -EFAULT;
}
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ static int viafb_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, u_int cmd, u_long arg)
return -ENOMEM;
viafb_get_gamma_table(viafb_gamma_table);
if (copy_to_user(argp, viafb_gamma_table,
- sizeof(viafb_gamma_table))) {
+ 256 * sizeof(u32))) {
kfree(viafb_gamma_table);
return -EFAULT;
}
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