From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:21:11 +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/input/mouse/bcm5974.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.c b/drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.c
index 685f56c08931..c827b31c8530 100644
--- a/drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.c
+++ b/drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.c
@@ -915,7 +915,7 @@ static int bcm5974_probe(struct usb_interface *iface,
cfg = bcm5974_get_config(udev);
/* allocate memory for our device state and initialize it */
- dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct bcm5974), GFP_KERNEL);
+ dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
input_dev = input_allocate_device();
if (!dev || !input_dev) {
dev_err(&iface->dev, "out of memory\n");
--
2.16.1
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