Re: [PATCH 14/26] IB/ocrdma: Improve another size determination in ocrdma_add()

Yuval Shaia
2017-03-08T14:28:43Z

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 02:10:33PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 22:12:36 +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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_main.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_main.c
> index 9caa4c564e34..c49b4491d4e7 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_main.c
> @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static struct ocrdma_dev *ocrdma_add(struct be_dev_info *dev_info)
> u8 lstate = 0;
> struct ocrdma_dev *dev;
>
> - dev = (struct ocrdma_dev *)ib_alloc_device(sizeof(struct ocrdma_dev));
> + dev = (struct ocrdma_dev *)ib_alloc_device(sizeof(*dev));
> if (!dev) {
> pr_err("Unable to allocate ib device\n");
> return NULL;

Reviewed-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@oracle.com>

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