From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mout.web.de ([217.72.192.78]:56045 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751497AbdISSqu (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:46:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] [media] hdpvr: Improve a size determination in hdpvr_alloc_buffers() From: SF Markus Elfring To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Arvind Yadav , Hans Verkuil , Jonathan Sims , Laurent Pinchart , Masahiro Yamada , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org References: <82d14066-5816-111c-9d21-f6a439e559c1@users.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:46:30 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <82d14066-5816-111c-9d21-f6a439e559c1@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Markus Elfring Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 19:27:53 +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. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring --- drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c b/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c index 657d910dfa1d..f06efcd70c14 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-video.c @@ -145,6 +145,5 @@ int hdpvr_alloc_buffers(struct hdpvr_device *dev, uint count) "allocating %u buffers\n", count); for (i = 0; i < count; i++) { - - buf = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hdpvr_buffer), GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*buf), GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) -- 2.14.1