From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 20:46:18 +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/dvb-frontends/sp2.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/sp2.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/sp2.c index d3b4f8822096..dd556012ceb6 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/sp2.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/sp2.c @@ -381,6 +381,6 @@ static int sp2_probe(struct i2c_client *client, dev_dbg(&client->dev, "\n"); - s = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sp2), GFP_KERNEL); + s = kzalloc(sizeof(*s), GFP_KERNEL); if (!s) { ret = -ENOMEM; -- 2.14.1