From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:03:30 +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 <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/parport/parport_ax88796.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/parport/parport_ax88796.c 
b/drivers/parport/parport_ax88796.c
index ef0aec4b55f3..09788d8cf467 100644
--- a/drivers/parport/parport_ax88796.c
+++ b/drivers/parport/parport_ax88796.c
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int parport_ax88796_probe(struct platform_device 
*pdev)
        int irq;
        int ret;
 
-       dd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ax_drvdata), GFP_KERNEL);
+       dd = kzalloc(sizeof(*dd), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!dd)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.15.1

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