[PATCH 21/21] ACPI-video: Improve a size determination in acpi_video_bus_get_one_device()

SF Markus Elfring
2016-09-05T17:09:06Z

Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 17:50:04 +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.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
---
drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
index 9685725..4cd693e 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
@@ -1084,7 +1084,7 @@ acpi_video_bus_get_one_device(struct acpi_device *device,
if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
return 0;

- data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_video_device), GFP_KERNEL);
+ data = kzalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!data)
return -ENOMEM;

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2.10.0