On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:58:49PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 20:16:16 +0100
> 
> Replace the specification of two data structures by pointer dereferences
> as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding size
> determinations a bit safer according to the Linux coding style convention.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_hw.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_hw.c 
> b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_hw.c
> index 1f7d88d7569e..0628600bee56 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_hw.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_hw.c
> @@ -1302,7 +1302,7 @@ int ocrdma_mbx_rdma_stats(struct ocrdma_dev *dev, bool 
> reset)
>       mqe->u.nonemb_req.sge[0].len = dev->stats_mem.size;
>  
>       /* Cache the old stats */
> -     memcpy(old_stats, req, sizeof(struct ocrdma_rdma_stats_resp));
> +     memcpy(old_stats, req, sizeof(*old_stats));

Isn't sizeof(req) smaller than sizeof(*old_stats)?

>       memset(req, 0, dev->stats_mem.size);
>  
>       ocrdma_init_mch((struct ocrdma_mbx_hdr *)req,
> @@ -1315,7 +1315,7 @@ int ocrdma_mbx_rdma_stats(struct ocrdma_dev *dev, bool 
> reset)
>       status = ocrdma_nonemb_mbx_cmd(dev, mqe, dev->stats_mem.va);
>       if (status)
>               /* Copy from cache, if mbox fails */
> -             memcpy(req, old_stats, sizeof(struct ocrdma_rdma_stats_resp));
> +             memcpy(req, old_stats, sizeof(*old_stats));

Fix itself looks fine but original code seems strange and makes me anxious
since resp is (much) bigger than req.

>       else
>               ocrdma_le32_to_cpu(req, dev->stats_mem.size);
>  
> -- 
> 2.12.0
> 
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