[PATCH 3/6]] POWERPC: fix memset size error
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Nov 5 16:35:57 EST 2007
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 10:21 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> The size passing to memset is wrong.
>
> Signed-off-by Li Zefan <lizf at cn.fujitsu.com>
Good catch, looks like a remain of when path was an array on the stack.
Thanks !
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> index 1db10f7..1add6ef 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> @@ -1244,7 +1244,7 @@ static void __init prom_initialize_tce_table(void)
> local_alloc_bottom = base;
>
> /* It seems OF doesn't null-terminate the path :-( */
> - memset(path, 0, sizeof(path));
> + memset(path, 0, PROM_SCRATCH_SIZE);
> /* Call OF to setup the TCE hardware */
> if (call_prom("package-to-path", 3, 1, node,
> path, PROM_SCRATCH_SIZE-1) == PROM_ERROR) {
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