From: Julia Lawall <redacted>
Memset should be given the size of the structure, not the size of the pointer.
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
type T;
T *x;
expression E;
@@
memset(x, E, sizeof(
+ *
x))
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <redacted>
---
net/mac80211/mesh.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -u -p a/net/mac80211/mesh.c b/Net/mac80211/mesh.c
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.c
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ int ieee80211_new_mesh_header(struct iee
char *addr5, char *addr6)
{
int aelen = 0;
- memset(meshhdr, 0, sizeof(meshhdr));
+ memset(meshhdr, 0, sizeof(*meshhdr));
meshhdr->ttl = sdata->u.mesh.mshcfg.dot11MeshTTL;
put_unaligned(cpu_to_le32(sdata->u.mesh.mesh_seqnum), &meshhdr->seqnum);
sdata->u.mesh.mesh_seqnum++;