livepatch/sample: Use the right type for the leaking data pointer

The "leak" pointer, in the sample of shadow variable API, is allocated
as sizeof(int). Let's help developers and static analyzers with
understanding the code by using the appropriate pointer type.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

diff --git a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix1.c b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix1.c
index e89ca45..bab12bd 100644 (file)
--- a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix1.c
+++ b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix1.c
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ struct dummy {
  */
 static int shadow_leak_ctor(void *obj, void *shadow_data, void *ctor_data)
 {
-       void **shadow_leak = shadow_data;
-       void *leak = ctor_data;
+       int **shadow_leak = shadow_data;
+       int *leak = ctor_data;
 
        *shadow_leak = leak;
        return 0;
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ static int shadow_leak_ctor(void *obj, void *shadow_data, void *ctor_data)
 static struct dummy *livepatch_fix1_dummy_alloc(void)
 {
        struct dummy *d;
-       void *leak;
+       int *leak;
 
        d = kzalloc(sizeof(*d), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!d)
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static struct dummy *livepatch_fix1_dummy_alloc(void)
         * variable.  A patched dummy_free routine can later fetch this
         * pointer to handle resource release.
         */
-       leak = kzalloc(sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
+       leak = kzalloc(sizeof(*leak), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!leak) {
                kfree(d);
                return NULL;
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static struct dummy *livepatch_fix1_dummy_alloc(void)
 static void livepatch_fix1_dummy_leak_dtor(void *obj, void *shadow_data)
 {
        void *d = obj;
-       void **shadow_leak = shadow_data;
+       int **shadow_leak = shadow_data;
 
        kfree(*shadow_leak);
        pr_info("%s: dummy @ %p, prevented leak @ %p\n",
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static void livepatch_fix1_dummy_leak_dtor(void *obj, void *shadow_data)
 
 static void livepatch_fix1_dummy_free(struct dummy *d)
 {
-       void **shadow_leak;
+       int **shadow_leak;
 
        /*
         * Patch: fetch the saved SV_LEAK shadow variable, detach and

diff --git a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix2.c b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix2.c
index 50d223b..29fe5cd 100644 (file)
--- a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix2.c
+++ b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-fix2.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static bool livepatch_fix2_dummy_check(struct dummy *d, unsigned long jiffies)
 static void livepatch_fix2_dummy_leak_dtor(void *obj, void *shadow_data)
 {
        void *d = obj;
-       void **shadow_leak = shadow_data;
+       int **shadow_leak = shadow_data;
 
        kfree(*shadow_leak);
        pr_info("%s: dummy @ %p, prevented leak @ %p\n",
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static void livepatch_fix2_dummy_leak_dtor(void *obj, void *shadow_data)
 
 static void livepatch_fix2_dummy_free(struct dummy *d)
 {
-       void **shadow_leak;
+       int **shadow_leak;
        int *shadow_count;
 
        /* Patch: copy the memory leak patch from the fix1 module. */

diff --git a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c
index ecfe83a..7e753b0 100644 (file)
--- a/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c
+++ b/samples/livepatch/livepatch-shadow-mod.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ struct dummy {
 static __used noinline struct dummy *dummy_alloc(void)
 {
        struct dummy *d;
-       void *leak;
+       int *leak;
 
        d = kzalloc(sizeof(*d), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!d)
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static __used noinline struct dummy *dummy_alloc(void)
                msecs_to_jiffies(1000 * EXPIRE_PERIOD);
 
        /* Oops, forgot to save leak! */
-       leak = kzalloc(sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
+       leak = kzalloc(sizeof(*leak), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!leak) {
                kfree(d);
                return NULL;