Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH 2/2] macintosh/rack-meter: Improve a size determination in rackmeter_probe() | From | SF Markus Elfring <> | Date | Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:40:57 +0100 |
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:26:52 +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/macintosh/rack-meter.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c b/drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c index 0796b74174d4..800fc6822ad8 100644 --- a/drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c +++ b/drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static int rackmeter_probe(struct macio_dev* mdev, } /* Create and initialize our instance data */ - rm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rackmeter), GFP_KERNEL); + rm = kzalloc(sizeof(*rm), GFP_KERNEL); if (rm == NULL) { rc = -ENOMEM; goto bail_release; -- 2.15.1
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