[Buildroot] [PATCH] mcookie: correct wrong memset argument
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Fri Jan 12 18:57:09 UTC 2018
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> writes:
> Fixes #10216
> Building mcookie generates a warning about possible wrong arguments to
> memset:
> mcookie.c:207:26: warning: argument to ‘sizeof’ in ‘memset’ call is the same expression
> as the destination; did you mean to dereference it? [-Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess]
> memset(ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx)); /* In case it's sensitive */
> ctx is a pointer to a structure, so the code should use the size of the
> structure and not the size of the pointer when it tries to clear the
> structure, similar to how it got fixed upstream back in 2009:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/lib/md5.c?id=6596057175c6ed342dc20e85eae8a42eb29b629f
> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
Committed, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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