From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 21:45:13 +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. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c index 7666212..64bc316 100644 --- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c +++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c @@ -4085,7 +4085,8 @@ static int receive_sizes(struct drbd_connection *connection, struct packet_info if (my_usize != p_usize) { struct disk_conf *old_disk_conf, *new_disk_conf; - new_disk_conf = kzalloc(sizeof(struct disk_conf), GFP_KERNEL); + new_disk_conf = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_disk_conf), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!new_disk_conf) { drbd_err(device, "Allocation of new disk_conf failed\n"); put_ldev(device); -- 2.10.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html