Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH 2/2] atm: Improve a size determination in adummy_init() | From | SF Markus Elfring <> | Date | Sun, 1 Oct 2017 21:50:33 +0200 |
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 21:35:18 +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/atm/adummy.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/atm/adummy.c b/drivers/atm/adummy.c index 94b73ddfb731..1ef2d8ee8d67 100644 --- a/drivers/atm/adummy.c +++ b/drivers/atm/adummy.c @@ -146,9 +146,7 @@ static int __init adummy_init(void) int err = 0; printk(KERN_ERR "adummy: version %s\n", DRV_VERSION); - - adummy_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct adummy_dev), - GFP_KERNEL); + adummy_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*adummy_dev), GFP_KERNEL); if (!adummy_dev) { err = -ENOMEM; goto out; -- 2.14.2
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