From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:10:45 +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/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c b/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c
index 68ebdf466b17..948e3461d02e 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ti-st/st_kim.c
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ static int kim_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
                st_kim_devices[0] = pdev;
        }
 
-       kim_gdata = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kim_data_s), GFP_ATOMIC);
+       kim_gdata = kzalloc(sizeof(*kim_gdata), GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (!kim_gdata)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.15.1

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