[PATCH] efi_loader: capsule: fix SIZEOF_MISMATCH warning
AKASHI Takahiro
takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Fri Jan 22 02:43:27 CET 2021
CID 316361 says:
> Passing argument "count * 8UL /* sizeof (*files) */" to
> function "dlmalloc" and then casting the return value to "u16 **" is
> suspicious. In this particular case "sizeof (u16 **)" happens to be equal
> to "sizeof (u16 *)", but this is not a portable assumption.
> > 767 tmp_files = malloc(count * sizeof(*files));
The change in this patch fixes the ambiguity.
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
Fixes: CID 316361
---
lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule.c
index dad1b0fcf7c0..95413c50f89a 100644
--- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule.c
+++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_capsule.c
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ static efi_status_t efi_capsule_scan_dir(u16 ***files, unsigned int *num)
goto err;
/* make a list */
- tmp_files = malloc(count * sizeof(*files));
+ tmp_files = malloc(count * sizeof(tmp_files[0]));
if (!tmp_files) {
ret = EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES;
goto err;
--
2.28.0
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