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authorPetr Mladek <[email protected]>2020-01-16 16:31:42 +0100
committerJiri Kosina <[email protected]>2020-01-17 11:12:06 +0100
commit8f6b88662cacb1d01398c1e8be52aeac433189f6 (patch)
tree29ed4a7bbc4cbff644df8f5cf54400956ccb09c9 /samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c
parentf838767555d40f29bc4771c5c8cc63193094b7cc (diff)
livepatch/sample: Use the right type for the leaking data pointer
The "leak" pointer, in the sample of shadow variable API, is allocated as sizeof(int). Let's help developers and static analyzers with understanding the code by using the appropriate pointer type. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Joe Lawrence <[email protected]> Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c')
-rw-r--r--samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c
index ecfe83a943a7..7e753b0d2fa6 100644
--- a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c
+++ b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ struct dummy {
static __used noinline struct dummy *dummy_alloc(void)
{
struct dummy *d;
- void *leak;
+ int *leak;
d = kzalloc(sizeof(*d), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!d)
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static __used noinline struct dummy *dummy_alloc(void)
msecs_to_jiffies(1000 * EXPIRE_PERIOD);
/* Oops, forgot to save leak! */
- leak = kzalloc(sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
+ leak = kzalloc(sizeof(*leak), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!leak) {
kfree(d);
return NULL;