Commit 5660ce34 authored by Julia Lawall's avatar Julia Lawall Committed by Ingo Molnar

perf tools: Correct size given to memset

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: default avatarJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912092026000.1870@ask.diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 21140f4d
......@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ static void clear_probe_point(struct probe_point *pp)
free(pp->args);
for (i = 0; i < pp->found; i++)
free(pp->probes[i]);
memset(pp, 0, sizeof(pp));
memset(pp, 0, sizeof(*pp));
}
/* Show an event */
......
......@@ -1477,7 +1477,7 @@ process_fields(struct event *event, struct print_flag_sym **list, char **tok)
goto out_free;
field = malloc_or_die(sizeof(*field));
memset(field, 0, sizeof(field));
memset(field, 0, sizeof(*field));
value = arg_eval(arg);
field->value = strdup(value);
......
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