From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 21:56:07 +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 <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/media/pci/mantis/mantis_cards.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/mantis/mantis_cards.c 
b/drivers/media/pci/mantis/mantis_cards.c
index 56a01f6f84c7..6182ae44dd23 100644
--- a/drivers/media/pci/mantis/mantis_cards.c
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/mantis/mantis_cards.c
@@ -173,5 +173,5 @@ static int mantis_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
        struct mantis_hwconfig *config;
        int err = 0;
 
-       mantis = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mantis_pci), GFP_KERNEL);
+       mantis = kzalloc(sizeof(*mantis), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!mantis)
-- 
2.14.1

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