From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 07:57:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 7/9] [media] tm6000: Improve a size determination in dvb_init() Message-Id: <77a3eba4-aeba-6747-dcce-e545802882d6@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: References: <2aade468-5dfd-76ee-f59f-c25864930f61@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <2aade468-5dfd-76ee-f59f-c25864930f61@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Andi Shyti , Andrew Morton , Arvind Yadav , Bhumika Goyal , Christophe Jaillet , =?UTF-8?Q?David_H=c3=a4rdeman?= , Hans Verkuil , Laurent Pinchart , Masahiro Yamada , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Sakari Ailus , Santosh Kumar Singh , Sean Young , Wei Yongjun Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org From: Markus Elfring Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 07:33:24 +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 --- drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c b/drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c index 2bc584f75f87..855874134fcf 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c @@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ static int dvb_init(struct tm6000_core *dev) return 0; } - dvb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct tm6000_dvb), GFP_KERNEL); + dvb = kzalloc(sizeof(*dvb), GFP_KERNEL); if (!dvb) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.14.1