From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:14:05 +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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/crypto/sahara.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/crypto/sahara.c b/drivers/crypto/sahara.c index 9f3cdda59139..0f2245e1af2b 100644 --- a/drivers/crypto/sahara.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/sahara.c @@ -1397,7 +1397,7 @@ static int sahara_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) int err; int i; - dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct sahara_dev), GFP_KERNEL); + dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL); if (!dev) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.16.1