From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:16:30 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: perf tools: Correct size computation in tracepoint_id_to_path()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.33-rc1~48^2~113
X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=59b4caeb797494043f5f3b98a610f5d9b75eefa3;p=linux-2.6-block.git

perf tools: Correct size computation in tracepoint_id_to_path()

The size argument to zalloc should be the size of desired
structure, not the pointer to it.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@expression@
expression *x;
@@

x =
 <+...
-sizeof(x)
+sizeof(*x)
...+>// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0912061016120.20858@ask.diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 9e5dbd66d34d..448a13b52015 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ struct tracepoint_path *tracepoint_id_to_path(u64 config)
 			if (id == config) {
 				closedir(evt_dir);
 				closedir(sys_dir);
-				path = zalloc(sizeof(path));
+				path = zalloc(sizeof(*path));
 				path->system = malloc(MAX_EVENT_LENGTH);
 				if (!path->system) {
 					free(path);