[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "arcnet: cleanup sizeof parameter" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Fri Aug 16 00:06:40 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    arcnet: cleanup sizeof parameter

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From bb4cd7e82b6487020e71b00b23ab1545c041b240 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 08:48:05 +0300
Subject: arcnet: cleanup sizeof parameter

[ Upstream commit 087d273caf4f7d3f2159256f255f1f432bc84a5b ]

This patch doesn't change the compiled code because ARC_HDR_SIZE is 4
and sizeof(int) is 4, but the intent was to use the header size and not
the sizeof the header size.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/arcnet/arcnet.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/arcnet/arcnet.c b/drivers/net/arcnet/arcnet.c
index a746ba2..a956053 100644
--- a/drivers/net/arcnet/arcnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/arcnet/arcnet.c
@@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ static void arcnet_rx(struct net_device *dev, int bufnum)

 	soft = &pkt.soft.rfc1201;

-	lp->hw.copy_from_card(dev, bufnum, 0, &pkt, sizeof(ARC_HDR_SIZE));
+	lp->hw.copy_from_card(dev, bufnum, 0, &pkt, ARC_HDR_SIZE);
 	if (pkt.hard.offset[0]) {
 		ofs = pkt.hard.offset[0];
 		length = 256 - ofs;
--
1.8.1.2





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