From: Gustavo A R Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:34:25 -0500
Subject: i40e/virtchnl: fix application of sizeof to pointer
Patch-mainline: v4.15-rc2
Git-commit: c30bf8cecebabb119aa1fbb17de84f924a8ab8f7
References: bsc#1101816 FATE#325147 FATE#325149
sizeof when applied to a pointer typed expression gives the size of
the pointer.
The proper fix in this particular case is to code sizeof(*vfres)
instead of sizeof(vfres).
This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A R Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
@@ -2086,7 +2086,7 @@ static int i40e_vc_request_queues_msg(st
}
return i40e_vc_send_msg_to_vf(vf, VIRTCHNL_OP_REQUEST_QUEUES, 0,
- (u8 *)vfres, sizeof(vfres));
+ (u8 *)vfres, sizeof(*vfres));
}
/**