From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 17:00:19 +0100
Replace the specification of data structures by pointer dereferences
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/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c | 2 +-
drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c
index 21d0fa592145..18404318dd71 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_context.c
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ int vmci_ctx_add_notification(u32 context_id, u32 remote_cid)
goto out;
}
- notifier = kmalloc(sizeof(struct vmci_handle_list), GFP_KERNEL);
+ notifier = kmalloc(sizeof(*notifier), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!notifier) {
result = VMCI_ERROR_NO_MEM;
goto out;
diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
index fb3d92a21afa..12419f97681d 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ static int vmci_host_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
struct vmci_host_dev *vmci_host_dev;
- vmci_host_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct vmci_host_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+ vmci_host_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*vmci_host_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
if (vmci_host_dev == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.16.2
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