Re: [PATCH 2/2] s390: Fix possibly wrong size in strncmp(smsglucv)

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sat Jan 29 2011 - 16:37:25 EST


On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Stefan Weil wrote:

> This error was reported by cppcheck:
> drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv.c:63: error: Using sizeof for array given as function argument returns the size of pointer.
>
> Although there is no runtime problem as long as sizeof(u8 *) == 8,
> this misleading code should get fixed.
>
> Cc: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux390@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv.c b/drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv.c
> index 65e1cf1..207b7d7 100644
> --- a/drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv.c
> +++ b/drivers/s390/net/smsgiucv.c
> @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static struct iucv_handler smsg_handler = {
> static int smsg_path_pending(struct iucv_path *path, u8 ipvmid[8],
> u8 ipuser[16])
> {
> - if (strncmp(ipvmid, "*MSG ", sizeof(ipvmid)) != 0)
> + if (strncmp(ipvmid, "*MSG ", 8) != 0)

Hmm, shouldn't this really be ARRAY_SIZE(ipvmid) ??

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