* Wei Tang <tang...@cmss.chinamobile.com> wrote:
> This patch fixes the checkpatch.pl warning to fork.c:
>
> WARNING: sizeof sig->rlim should be sizeof(sig->rlim)
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Tang <tang...@cmss.chinamobile.com>
> ---
> kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index 2e391c7..30e04d2 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags,
> struct task_struct *tsk)
> sig->real_timer.function = it_real_fn;
>
> task_lock(current->group_leader);
> - memcpy(sig->rlim, current->signal->rlim, sizeof sig->rlim);
> + memcpy(sig->rlim, current->signal->rlim, sizeof(sig->rlim));
> task_unlock(current->group_leader);
>
> posix_cpu_timers_init_group(sig);
So there's over 1,000 such occurances in the kernel and we do not need this
drip-drip churn...
If anyone feels strongly about accepting such patches, then the right solution
is
to create a Coccinelle semantic patch to run over the whole kernel and get over
with the churn once and for all.
Thanks,
Ingo
