From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 13:43:20 +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/misc/ibmasm/module.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/module.c b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/module.c
index d22b3c428ca9..894397b1ee51 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/module.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/module.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static int ibmasm_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
/* vnc client won't work without bus-mastering */
pci_set_master(pdev);
- sp = kzalloc(sizeof(struct service_processor), GFP_KERNEL);
+ sp = kzalloc(sizeof(*sp), GFP_KERNEL);
if (sp == NULL) {
result = -ENOMEM;
goto error_kmalloc;
--
2.15.1
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