From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Subject: [PATCH 2/3] ALSA: hal2: Improve a size determination in hal2_create() Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 19:13:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <118a96d5-c52a-fd22-23d5-28f20de7ff22@users.sourceforge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mout.web.de (mout.web.de [212.227.15.3]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC25A266B67 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2017 19:13:23 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <118a96d5-c52a-fd22-23d5-28f20de7ff22@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Language: en-GB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Arnd Bergmann , Arvind Yadav , Bhumika Goyal , Jaroslav Kysela , Mark Brown , Takashi Iwai Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org From: Markus Elfring Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 18:34:04 +0100 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 --- sound/mips/hal2.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/mips/hal2.c b/sound/mips/hal2.c index 30563d9aa5c8..675c3aba794e 100644 --- a/sound/mips/hal2.c +++ b/sound/mips/hal2.c @@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ static int hal2_create(struct snd_card *card, struct snd_hal2 **rchip) struct hpc3_regs *hpc3 = hpc3c0; int err; - hal2 = kzalloc(sizeof(struct snd_hal2), GFP_KERNEL); + hal2 = kzalloc(sizeof(*hal2), GFP_KERNEL); if (!hal2) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.15.0