Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: mt7621-pinctrl: Use correct pointer type argument for sizeof

From: Dan Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:19:00 +0300

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 08:37:55PM +0800, Jason Yan wrote:
> Fix the following coccicheck warning:
> 
> drivers/staging/mt7621-pinctrl/pinctrl-rt2880.c:223:14-36: WARNING: Use
> correct pointer type argument for sizeof
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/mt7621-pinctrl/pinctrl-rt2880.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/mt7621-pinctrl/pinctrl-rt2880.c b/drivers/staging/mt7621-pinctrl/pinctrl-rt2880.c
> index d0f06790d38f..8883f2a8ea57 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/mt7621-pinctrl/pinctrl-rt2880.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/mt7621-pinctrl/pinctrl-rt2880.c
> @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static int rt2880_pinmux_index(struct rt2880_priv *p)
>  	/* allocate our function and group mapping index buffers */
>  	f = p->func = devm_kcalloc(p->dev,
>  				   p->func_count,
> -				   sizeof(struct rt2880_pmx_func),
> +				   sizeof(struct rt2880_pmx_func *),

Yes.  This fixes a bug.  We were allocating too much data.  But the
prefered style is:

				sizeof(*p->func),

Please could you resend?

regards,
dan carpenter

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