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ACPI, APEI: fix using the correct variable for sizeof()

Message ID 20220319215447.2625681-1-jakobkoschel@gmail.com
State Accepted
Commit fa3416509605621b8db263b0ee9aaf85285aee4b
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Series ACPI, APEI: fix using the correct variable for sizeof() | expand

Commit Message

Jakob Koschel March 19, 2022, 9:54 p.m. UTC
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@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


base-commit: 34e047aa16c0123bbae8e2f6df33e5ecc1f56601

Comments

Rafael J. Wysocki March 22, 2022, 5:53 p.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 10:55 PM Jakob Koschel <jakobkoschel@gmail.com> 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@gmail.com>
> ---
>  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!
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Patch

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;