Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH 2/2] sn/ioc3: Improve a size determination in ioc3_probe() | From | SF Markus Elfring <> | Date | Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:08:26 +0100 |
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:53:18 +0100
Replace the specification of a data structure by a pointer dereference as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to the Linux coding style convention.
This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> --- drivers/sn/ioc3.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/sn/ioc3.c b/drivers/sn/ioc3.c index 2e6e0514d8f7..1cacc6178e6f 100644 --- a/drivers/sn/ioc3.c +++ b/drivers/sn/ioc3.c @@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ static int ioc3_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *pci_id) #endif /* Set up per-IOC3 data */ - idd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ioc3_driver_data), GFP_KERNEL); + idd = kzalloc(sizeof(*idd), GFP_KERNEL); if (!idd) { ret = -ENODEV; goto out_idd; -- 2.15.1
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