From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 20:02:07 +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> --- sound/mips/sgio2audio.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/mips/sgio2audio.c b/sound/mips/sgio2audio.c index 62715a01f507..9e175a184b66 100644 --- a/sound/mips/sgio2audio.c +++ b/sound/mips/sgio2audio.c @@ -840,7 +840,7 @@ static int snd_sgio2audio_create(struct snd_card *card, if (!(readq(&mace->perif.audio.control) & AUDIO_CONTROL_CODEC_PRESENT)) return -ENOENT; - chip = kzalloc(sizeof(struct snd_sgio2audio), GFP_KERNEL); + chip = kzalloc(sizeof(*chip), GFP_KERNEL); if (chip == NULL) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.15.0 -- 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