[Buildroot] [PATCH] mcookie: correct wrong memset argument

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Wed Jan 10 22:03:03 UTC 2018


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>
---
 package/x11r7/mcookie/mcookie.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/package/x11r7/mcookie/mcookie.c b/package/x11r7/mcookie/mcookie.c
index 902d92fc47..3c38f6f3b3 100644
--- a/package/x11r7/mcookie/mcookie.c
+++ b/package/x11r7/mcookie/mcookie.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ void MD5Final(unsigned char digest[16], struct MD5Context *ctx)
     MD5Transform(ctx->buf, (uint32 *) ctx->in);
     byteReverse((unsigned char *) ctx->buf, 4);
     memcpy(digest, ctx->buf, 16);
-    memset(ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx));	/* In case it's sensitive */
+    memset(ctx, 0, sizeof(*ctx));	/* In case it's sensitive */
 }
 
 /* The four core functions - F1 is optimized somewhat */
-- 
2.11.0



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