From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:15:17 +0200

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>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/mm.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/mm.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/mm.c
index b0f34663b1ae..257de451e324 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/mm.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/mm.c
@@ -524,8 +524,7 @@ static int dma_sb_map_pages(struct ps3_dma_region *r, 
unsigned long phys_addr,
        int result;
        struct dma_chunk *c;
 
-       c = kzalloc(sizeof(struct dma_chunk), GFP_ATOMIC);
-
+       c = kzalloc(sizeof(*c), GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (!c) {
                result = -ENOMEM;
                goto fail_alloc;
@@ -570,8 +569,7 @@ static int dma_ioc0_map_pages(struct ps3_dma_region *r, 
unsigned long phys_addr,
 
        DBG(KERN_ERR "%s: phy=%#lx, lpar%#lx, len=%#lx\n", __func__,
            phys_addr, ps3_mm_phys_to_lpar(phys_addr), len);
-       c = kzalloc(sizeof(struct dma_chunk), GFP_ATOMIC);
-
+       c = kzalloc(sizeof(*c), GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (!c) {
                result = -ENOMEM;
                goto fail_alloc;
-- 
2.14.2

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