On Sunday 03 April 2005 01:38, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > out of boredom I grepped 2.6.12-rc1-mm4 for swapped memset arguments. > > I found one: > > > > # grep -nr "memset.*\,\(\ \|\)0\(\ \|\));" * > > net/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c:226: memset(txb, sizeof(struct > > ieee80211_txb), 0); > > > And here's a patch : > > > Fix swapped memset() arguments in net/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c > found by Maciej Soltysiak.
This one will stop these from happening again. (Well, at least on i386)... -- vda
--- linux-2.6.11.src/include/asm-i386/string.h.orig Thu Mar 3 09:31:08 2005 +++ linux-2.6.11.src/include/asm-i386/string.h Tue Apr 5 18:34:28 2005 @@ -316,8 +345,16 @@ __asm__ __volatile__( return s; } -/* we might want to write optimized versions of these later */ -#define __constant_count_memset(s,c,count) __memset_generic((s),(c),(count)) +/* + * we might want to write optimized versions of this later + * for mow, just prevent common mistake of memset(a,c,0) + */ +void BUG_memset_with_zero_length(void); +static inline void * __constant_count_memset(void * s, int c, size_t count) +{ + if(!count) BUG_memset_with_zero_length(); + return __memset_generic(s,c,count); +} /* * memset(x,0,y) is a reasonably common thing to do, so we want to fill @@ -376,6 +413,7 @@ static inline void * __constant_c_and_co { switch (count) { case 0: + BUG_memset_with_zero_length(); return s; case 1: *(unsigned char *)s = pattern;