Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH 3/4] misc/ioc4: Improve a size determination in ioc4_probe() | From | SF Markus Elfring <> | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2018 17:17:54 +0100 |
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 16:18:52 +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/misc/ioc4.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ioc4.c b/drivers/misc/ioc4.c index 5bd422498fff..704e13382df0 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/ioc4.c +++ b/drivers/misc/ioc4.c @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ ioc4_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *pci_id) pci_set_master(pdev); /* Set up per-IOC4 data */ - idd = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ioc4_driver_data), GFP_KERNEL); + idd = kmalloc(sizeof(*idd), GFP_KERNEL); if (!idd) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto out_idd; -- 2.15.1
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