On Mon, 15 Jan 2018, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:47:03 +0100
>
> Replace the specification of data structures by pointer dereferences
> 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/mfd/sm501.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/sm501.c b/drivers/mfd/sm501.c
> index 7298d6b571a1..d5ab3481794a 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/sm501.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/sm501.c
> @@ -1380,10 +1380,9 @@ static int sm501_init_dev(struct sm501_devdata *sm)
>
> static int sm501_plat_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
> {
> - struct sm501_devdata *sm;
> int ret;
> + struct sm501_devdata *sm = kzalloc(sizeof(*sm), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> - sm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sm501_devdata), GFP_KERNEL);
Leave this here please.
Just s/struct sm501_devdata/*sm/
> if (sm == NULL) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto err1;
> @@ -1569,10 +1568,9 @@ static struct sm501_platdata sm501_pci_platdata = {
> static int sm501_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *dev,
> const struct pci_device_id *id)
> {
> - struct sm501_devdata *sm;
> int err;
> + struct sm501_devdata *sm = kzalloc(sizeof(*sm), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> - sm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sm501_devdata), GFP_KERNEL);
As above.
> if (sm == NULL) {
> err = -ENOMEM;
> goto err1;
--
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