Re: [PATCH] ACPI, APEI: fix using the correct variable for sizeof()

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Mar 22 2022 - 13:54:02 EST


On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 10:55 PM Jakob Koschel <jakobkoschel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> While the original code is valid, it is not the obvious choice for the
> sizeof() call and in preparation to limit the scope of the list iterator
> variable the sizeof should be changed to the size of the variable
> being allocated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel <jakobkoschel@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c
> index c7fdb12c3310..33b7fbbeda82 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c
> @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ static int apei_res_add(struct list_head *res_list,
> if (res_ins)
> list_add(&res_ins->list, res_list);
> else {
> - res_ins = kmalloc(sizeof(*res), GFP_KERNEL);
> + res_ins = kmalloc(sizeof(*res_ins), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!res_ins)
> return -ENOMEM;
> res_ins->start = start;
>
> base-commit: 34e047aa16c0123bbae8e2f6df33e5ecc1f56601
> --

Applied as 5.18-rc material, thanks!