On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:19:45PM +0800, Wei Yongjun wrote:
> From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_...@trendmicro.com.cn>
> 
> sizeof() when applied to a pointer typed expression gives the
> size of the pointer, not that of the pointed data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_...@trendmicro.com.cn>
> ---
>  drivers/block/cciss.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> index ade58bc..1c1b8e5 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> @@ -4206,7 +4206,7 @@ static int cciss_find_cfgtables(ctlr_info_t *h)
>       if (rc)
>               return rc;
>       h->cfgtable = remap_pci_mem(pci_resource_start(h->pdev,
> -             cfg_base_addr_index) + cfg_offset, sizeof(h->cfgtable));
> +             cfg_base_addr_index) + cfg_offset, sizeof(*h->cfgtable));
>       if (!h->cfgtable)
>               return -ENOMEM;
>       rc = write_driver_ver_to_cfgtable(h->cfgtable);
> 

Ack.

I suppose it has worked all this time because ioremap can't map less
than a page, and sizeof(*h->cfgtable) is less than a page, and likely
starts on a page boundary.

-- steve

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