diff mbox

[6/12] drivers/rtc: Correct size given to memset

Message ID Pine.LNX.4.64.0912092023500.1870@ask.diku.dk
State Accepted
Headers show

Commit Message

Julia Lawall Dec. 9, 2009, 7:24 p.m. UTC 
From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

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 <julia@diku.dk>

---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-at91sam9.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff mbox

Patch

diff -u -p a/drivers/rtc/rtc-at91sam9.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-at91sam9.c
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-at91sam9.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-at91sam9.c
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@  static int at91_rtc_readalarm(struct dev
 	if (offset == 0)
 		return -EILSEQ;
 
-	memset(alrm, 0, sizeof(alrm));
+	memset(alrm, 0, sizeof(*alrm));
 	if (alarm != ALARM_DISABLED && offset != 0) {
 		rtc_time_to_tm(offset + alarm, tm);