x86/boot: Use proper array element type in memset() size calculation
authorAlexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Tue, 9 Feb 2016 13:44:54 +0000 (19:44 +0600)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 9 Feb 2016 13:55:48 +0000 (14:55 +0100)
I changed open coded zeroing loops to explicit memset()s in the
following commit:

  5e9ebbd87a99 ("x86/boot: Micro-optimize reset_early_page_tables()")

The base for the size argument of memset was sizeof(pud_p/pmd_p), which
are pointers - but the initialized array has pud_t/pmd_t elements.

Luckily the two types had the same size, so this did not result in any
runtime misbehavior.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Popov <alpopov@ptsecurity.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455025494-4063-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/head64.c

index 35843ca..7793a17 100644 (file)
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ again:
                }
 
                pud_p = (pudval_t *)early_dynamic_pgts[next_early_pgt++];
-               memset(pud_p, 0, sizeof(pud_p) * PTRS_PER_PUD);
+               memset(pud_p, 0, sizeof(*pud_p) * PTRS_PER_PUD);
                *pgd_p = (pgdval_t)pud_p - __START_KERNEL_map + phys_base + _KERNPG_TABLE;
        }
        pud_p += pud_index(address);
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ again:
                }
 
                pmd_p = (pmdval_t *)early_dynamic_pgts[next_early_pgt++];
-               memset(pmd_p, 0, sizeof(pmd_p) * PTRS_PER_PMD);
+               memset(pmd_p, 0, sizeof(*pmd_p) * PTRS_PER_PMD);
                *pud_p = (pudval_t)pmd_p - __START_KERNEL_map + phys_base + _KERNPG_TABLE;
        }
        pmd = (physaddr & PMD_MASK) + early_pmd_flags;