On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 9:52 AM Liu Shixin liushixin2@huawei.com wrote:

sizeof() when applied to a pointer typed expression should gives the size of the pointed data, even if the data is a pointer.

Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin liushixin2@huawei.com

drivers/tee/optee/shm_pool.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tee/optee/shm_pool.c b/drivers/tee/optee/shm_pool.c index d767eebf30bd..9fdc667b5df0 100644 --- a/drivers/tee/optee/shm_pool.c +++ b/drivers/tee/optee/shm_pool.c @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ static int pool_op_alloc(struct tee_shm_pool_mgr *poolm, unsigned int nr_pages = 1 << order, i; struct page **pages;

•           pages = kcalloc(nr_pages, sizeof(pages), GFP_KERNEL);
  

•           pages = kcalloc(nr_pages, sizeof(*pages), GFP_KERNEL);
  

In this case we want an array of pointers as you also can see in the type of "pages".

Thanks, Jens

            if (!pages)
                    return -ENOMEM;

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