From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 19:42:12 +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/cx18/cx18-driver.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c 
b/drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c
index b267590e0877..49fc9b72ada5 100644
--- a/drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/cx18/cx18-driver.c
@@ -909,5 +909,5 @@ static int cx18_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
 
-       cx = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cx18), GFP_ATOMIC);
+       cx = kzalloc(sizeof(*cx), GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (!cx)
-- 
2.14.1

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