From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Subject: [PATCH 2/3] serial: ifx6x60: Improve a size determination in ifx_spi_spi_probe() Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 20:12:21 +0100 Message-ID: <2134a9fd-73d9-686f-cc41-0d143a62cbbe@users.sourceforge.net> References: <992f55e5-961d-79ea-a6cd-441ceb3ad058@users.sourceforge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <992f55e5-961d-79ea-a6cd-441ceb3ad058@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Language: en-GB Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org From: Markus Elfring Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 19:22:50 +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/tty/serial/ifx6x60.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/ifx6x60.c b/drivers/tty/serial/ifx6x60.c index 832751479f41..1883e3382338 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/ifx6x60.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/ifx6x60.c @@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ static int ifx_spi_spi_probe(struct spi_device *spi) } /* initialize structure to hold our device variables */ - ifx_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ifx_spi_device), GFP_KERNEL); + ifx_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*ifx_dev), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ifx_dev) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.15.1