Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH 4/4] serial: pch_uart: Improve a size determination in pch_uart_init_port() | From | SF Markus Elfring <> | Date | Fri, 8 Dec 2017 19:12:33 +0100 |
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 18:53:21 +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/tty/serial/pch_uart.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c index 790a7aae331f..1c30309ef02c 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c @@ -1747,7 +1747,7 @@ static struct eg20t_port *pch_uart_init_port(struct pci_dev *pdev, board = &drv_dat[id->driver_data]; port_type = board->port_type; - priv = kzalloc(sizeof(struct eg20t_port), GFP_KERNEL); + priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL); if (priv == NULL) goto init_port_alloc_err; -- 2.15.1
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