Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH 2/3] [media] cx18: Improve a size determination in cx18_probe() | From | SF Markus Elfring <> | Date | Sat, 2 Sep 2017 20:42:04 +0200 |
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 19:42:12 +0200
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/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c b/drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c index b267590e0877..49fc9b72ada5 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c @@ -909,5 +909,5 @@ static int cx18_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, return -ENOMEM; } - cx = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cx18), GFP_ATOMIC); + cx = kzalloc(sizeof(*cx), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!cx) -- 2.14.1
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