From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 19:27:28 +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>
---
v2:
This update suggestion was rebased on source files from the software
"Linux next-20180105".
drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
index f599520374dd..6439231f2db2 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
@@ -628,7 +628,8 @@ static int ssd1307fb_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
goto fb_alloc_error;
}
- ssd1307fb_defio = devm_kzalloc(&client->dev, sizeof(struct fb_deferred_io), GFP_KERNEL);
+ ssd1307fb_defio = devm_kzalloc(&client->dev, sizeof(*ssd1307fb_defio),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ssd1307fb_defio) {
dev_err(&client->dev, "Couldn't allocate deferred io.\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;
--
2.15.1
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