linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] [media] Cypress: Improve a size determination in cypress_load

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Date:   Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:12:08 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, Antti Palosaari <crope@....fi>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [media] Cypress: Improve a size determination in
 cypress_load_firmware()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:55:16 +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 <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/media/common/cypress_firmware.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/common/cypress_firmware.c b/drivers/media/common/cypress_firmware.c
index bfe47bc5f716..8895158c1962 100644
--- a/drivers/media/common/cypress_firmware.c
+++ b/drivers/media/common/cypress_firmware.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ int cypress_load_firmware(struct usb_device *udev,
 	struct hexline *hx;
 	int ret, pos = 0;
 
-	hx = kmalloc(sizeof(struct hexline), GFP_KERNEL);
+	hx = kmalloc(sizeof(*hx), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!hx)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.14.1