Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH 2/3] [media] hdpvr: Improve a size determination in hdpvr_alloc_buffers() | From | SF Markus Elfring <> | Date | Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:46:30 +0200 |
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 19:27:53 +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/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c b/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c index 657d910dfa1d..f06efcd70c14 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c @@ -145,6 +145,5 @@ int hdpvr_alloc_buffers(struct hdpvr_device *dev, uint count) "allocating %u buffers\n", count); for (i = 0; i < count; i++) { - - buf = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hdpvr_buffer), GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*buf), GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) -- 2.14.1
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