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* [PATCH] Fix application of sizeof to pointer
@ 2021-10-12  3:01 davidcomponentone
  2021-10-12  7:01 ` David Hildenbrand
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: davidcomponentone @ 2021-10-12  3:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm
  Cc: shuah, linux-mm, linux-kselftest, linux-kernel, David Yang, Zeal Robot

From: David Yang <davidcomponentone@gmail.com>

The coccinelle check report:
"./tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c:344:36-42:
ERROR: application of sizeof to pointer"
Using the "strlen" to fix it.

Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: David Yang <davidcomponentone@gmail.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c
index 1af16d2c2a0a..52497b7b9f1d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ void split_file_backed_thp(void)
 	}
 
 	/* write something to the file, so a file-backed THP can be allocated */
-	num_written = write(fd, tmpfs_loc, sizeof(tmpfs_loc));
+	num_written = write(fd, tmpfs_loc, strlen(tmpfs_loc) + 1);
 	close(fd);
 
 	if (num_written < 1) {
-- 
2.30.2



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* Re: [PATCH] Fix application of sizeof to pointer
  2021-10-12  3:01 [PATCH] Fix application of sizeof to pointer davidcomponentone
@ 2021-10-12  7:01 ` David Hildenbrand
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Hildenbrand @ 2021-10-12  7:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davidcomponentone, akpm
  Cc: shuah, linux-mm, linux-kselftest, linux-kernel, Zeal Robot

On 12.10.21 05:01, davidcomponentone@gmail.com wrote:
> From: David Yang <davidcomponentone@gmail.com>
> 
> The coccinelle check report:
> "./tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c:344:36-42:
> ERROR: application of sizeof to pointer"
> Using the "strlen" to fix it.
> 
> Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn>
> Signed-off-by: David Yang <davidcomponentone@gmail.com>
> ---
>   tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c
> index 1af16d2c2a0a..52497b7b9f1d 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/split_huge_page_test.c
> @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ void split_file_backed_thp(void)
>   	}
>   
>   	/* write something to the file, so a file-backed THP can be allocated */
> -	num_written = write(fd, tmpfs_loc, sizeof(tmpfs_loc));
> +	num_written = write(fd, tmpfs_loc, strlen(tmpfs_loc) + 1);
>   	close(fd);
>   
>   	if (num_written < 1) {
> 

I think the code really just wants to write anything to the file that 
will be >= 1, which is also the case with this weird usage of sizeof.

As an alternative, I think we can just write anything else to the file

num_written = write(fd, (void *)&fd, sizeof(fd));

or

num_written = write(fd, "1", 1);

If I am not wrong/

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb



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