From: Markus Elfring <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:21:11 +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 <[email protected]> --- drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.c b/drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.c index 685f56c08931..c827b31c8530 100644 --- a/drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.c +++ b/drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.c @@ -915,7 +915,7 @@ static int bcm5974_probe(struct usb_interface *iface, cfg = bcm5974_get_config(udev); /* allocate memory for our device state and initialize it */ - dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct bcm5974), GFP_KERNEL); + dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL); input_dev = input_allocate_device(); if (!dev || !input_dev) { dev_err(&iface->dev, "out of memory\n"); -- 2.16.1
