From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 10:52:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] [media] mr800: Improve a size determination in usb_amradio_probe() Message-Id: List-Id: References: <7efe75db-dbb4-0fe7-509d-908b81072ca1@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <7efe75db-dbb4-0fe7-509d-908b81072ca1@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Klimov , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org From: Markus Elfring Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 11:34:11 +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/radio/radio-mr800.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/radio/radio-mr800.c b/drivers/media/radio/radio-mr800.c index 63a9b92ab495..7c4554ce1cf0 100644 --- a/drivers/media/radio/radio-mr800.c +++ b/drivers/media/radio/radio-mr800.c @@ -515,4 +515,3 @@ static int usb_amradio_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, - radio = kzalloc(sizeof(struct amradio_device), GFP_KERNEL); - + radio = kzalloc(sizeof(*radio), GFP_KERNEL); if (!radio) { -- 2.14.1