From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 21:25:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/5] radeon_backlight: Improve a size determination in radeonfb_bl_init() Message-Id: List-Id: References: <93c99f89-2d97-0e95-fe57-7b7a0824e864@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <93c99f89-2d97-0e95-fe57-7b7a0824e864@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML From: Markus Elfring Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 21:30:06 +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 --- drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_backlight.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_backlight.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_backlight.c index ce5b22d710b3..78c36c8d5e57 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_backlight.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_backlight.c @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ void radeonfb_bl_init(struct radeonfb_info *rinfo) return; #endif - pdata = kmalloc(sizeof(struct radeon_bl_privdata), GFP_KERNEL); + pdata = kmalloc(sizeof(*pdata), GFP_KERNEL); if (!pdata) goto error; -- 2.15.0