We want the size of the struct, not of a pointer to it. To be future proof, just dereference the pointer to get the desired type. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Compile tested only. Found by static code analysis. drivers/platform/x86/intel-hid.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel-hid.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel-hid.c index e20f23e04c24ce..f93abc8c1424ad 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel-hid.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel-hid.c @@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ static int intel_hid_probe(struct platform_device *device) return -ENODEV; } - priv = devm_kzalloc(&device->dev, - sizeof(struct intel_hid_priv *), GFP_KERNEL); + priv = devm_kzalloc(&device->dev, sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL); if (!priv) return -ENOMEM; dev_set_drvdata(&device->dev, priv); -- 2.7.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html