From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: elfring@users.sourceforge.net (SF Markus Elfring) Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:11:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 05/24] ste_dma40: Improve a size determination in d40_of_probe() In-Reply-To: <92810066-69b6-94e7-dcec-a28594b1328f@users.sourceforge.net> References: <566ABCD9.1060404@users.sourceforge.net> <92810066-69b6-94e7-dcec-a28594b1328f@users.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <7872b8b2-e004-ac91-81d4-407596dc12b7@users.sourceforge.net> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org From: Markus Elfring Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 08:28:05 +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 --- drivers/dma/ste_dma40.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/ste_dma40.c b/drivers/dma/ste_dma40.c index 220129e..57d87a8 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/ste_dma40.c +++ b/drivers/dma/ste_dma40.c @@ -3487,9 +3487,7 @@ static int __init d40_of_probe(struct platform_device *pdev, int num_phy = 0, num_memcpy = 0, num_disabled = 0; const __be32 *list; - pdata = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, - sizeof(struct stedma40_platform_data), - GFP_KERNEL); + pdata = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*pdata), GFP_KERNEL); if (!pdata) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.10.0