From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 22:22:13 +0200 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/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c b/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c index e6807bad9792..960272d3c924 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c @@ -1319,7 +1319,7 @@ static struct usb_usbvision *usbvision_alloc(struct usb_device *dev, { struct usb_usbvision *usbvision; - usbvision = kzalloc(sizeof(struct usb_usbvision), GFP_KERNEL); + usbvision = kzalloc(sizeof(*usbvision), GFP_KERNEL); if (!usbvision) return NULL; -- 2.14.0