It is preferred to use sizeof(*pointer) instead of sizeof(type). First, the type of the variable can change and one needs not change the former (unlike the latter). Second, the latter is error-prone due to (u16), (u16 *), and (u16 **) mixture here. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c | 23 ++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c b/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c index 097ab7d01f8b..79a62dcca046 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c @@ -251,12 +251,12 @@ static void set_inverse_trans_unicode(struct vc_data *conp, return; q = p->inverse_trans_unicode; if (!q) { - q = p->inverse_trans_unicode = - kmalloc_array(MAX_GLYPH, sizeof(u16), GFP_KERNEL); + q = p->inverse_trans_unicode = kmalloc_array(MAX_GLYPH, + sizeof(*q), GFP_KERNEL); if (!q) return; } - memset(q, 0, MAX_GLYPH * sizeof(u16)); + memset(q, 0, MAX_GLYPH * sizeof(*q)); for (i = 0; i < UNI_DIRS; i++) { p1 = p->uni_pgdir[i]; @@ -478,8 +478,8 @@ static int con_unify_unimap(struct vc_data *conp, struct uni_pagedict *p) continue; if (!p1[k] || !q1[k]) break; - if (memcmp(p1[k], q1[k], - UNI_ROW_GLYPHS * sizeof(u16))) + if (memcmp(p1[k], q1[k], UNI_ROW_GLYPHS * + sizeof(*p1[k]))) break; } if (k < UNI_DIR_ROWS) @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ con_insert_unipair(struct uni_pagedict *p, u_short unicode, u_short fontpos) n = UNI_DIR(unicode); p1 = p->uni_pgdir[n]; if (!p1) { - p1 = p->uni_pgdir[n] = kcalloc(UNI_DIR_ROWS, sizeof(u16 *), + p1 = p->uni_pgdir[n] = kcalloc(UNI_DIR_ROWS, sizeof(*p1), GFP_KERNEL); if (!p1) return -ENOMEM; @@ -514,11 +514,12 @@ con_insert_unipair(struct uni_pagedict *p, u_short unicode, u_short fontpos) n = UNI_ROW(unicode); p2 = p1[n]; if (!p2) { - p2 = p1[n] = kmalloc_array(UNI_ROW_GLYPHS, sizeof(u16), GFP_KERNEL); + p2 = p1[n] = kmalloc_array(UNI_ROW_GLYPHS, sizeof(*p2), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!p2) return -ENOMEM; /* No glyphs for the characters (yet) */ - memset(p2, 0xff, UNI_ROW_GLYPHS * sizeof(u16)); + memset(p2, 0xff, UNI_ROW_GLYPHS * sizeof(*p2)); } p2[UNI_GLYPH(unicode)] = fontpos; @@ -571,7 +572,7 @@ int con_set_unimap(struct vc_data *vc, ushort ct, struct unipair __user *list) if (!ct) return 0; - unilist = vmemdup_user(list, array_size(sizeof(struct unipair), ct)); + unilist = vmemdup_user(list, array_size(sizeof(*unilist), ct)); if (IS_ERR(unilist)) return PTR_ERR(unilist); @@ -771,7 +772,7 @@ int con_get_unimap(struct vc_data *vc, ushort ct, ushort __user *uct, struct uni struct uni_pagedict *p; struct unipair *unilist; - unilist = kvmalloc_array(ct, sizeof(struct unipair), GFP_KERNEL); + unilist = kvmalloc_array(ct, sizeof(*unilist), GFP_KERNEL); if (!unilist) return -ENOMEM; @@ -800,7 +801,7 @@ int con_get_unimap(struct vc_data *vc, ushort ct, ushort __user *uct, struct uni } } console_unlock(); - if (copy_to_user(list, unilist, min(ect, ct) * sizeof(struct unipair))) + if (copy_to_user(list, unilist, min(ect, ct) * sizeof(*unilist))) ret = -EFAULT; put_user(ect, uct); kvfree(unilist); -- 2.36.1