[SCSI] hpsa: Change memset using sizeof(ptr) to sizeof(*ptr)

Author: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

Not at all sure this is correct or appropriate to change,
but this seems odd.

Found via coccinelle script

@@
type T;
T* ptr;
expression E1;
@@

* memset(E1, 0, sizeof(ptr));

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Acked-by: Stephen M. Cameron 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley 
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley

---
 drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
index cffc7bb..c6c0434 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ static void hpsa_scsi_do_simple_cmd_with_retry(struct ctlr_info *h,
 	int retry_count = 0;
 
 	do {
-		memset(c->err_info, 0, sizeof(c->err_info));
+		memset(c->err_info, 0, sizeof(*c->err_info));
 		hpsa_scsi_do_simple_cmd_core(h, c);
 		retry_count++;
 	} while (check_for_unit_attention(h, c) && retry_count <= 3);

[SCSI] hpsa: Change memset using sizeof(ptr) to sizeof(*ptr)

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