Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH 6/7] [media] Mantis: Improve a size determination in mantis_pci_probe() | From | SF Markus Elfring <> | Date | Sat, 2 Sep 2017 22:46:11 +0200 |
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 21:56:07 +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/mantis/mantis_cards.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/mantis/mantis_cards.c b/drivers/media/pci/mantis/mantis_cards.c index 56a01f6f84c7..6182ae44dd23 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/mantis/mantis_cards.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/mantis/mantis_cards.c @@ -173,5 +173,5 @@ static int mantis_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, struct mantis_hwconfig *config; int err = 0; - mantis = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mantis_pci), GFP_KERNEL); + mantis = kzalloc(sizeof(*mantis), GFP_KERNEL); if (!mantis) -- 2.14.1
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