linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] ALSA: hal2: Improve a size determination in hal2

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Date:   Sat, 11 Nov 2017 19:13:15 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>,
        Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] ALSA: hal2: Improve a size determination in hal2_create()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 18:34:04 +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 <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 sound/mips/hal2.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/mips/hal2.c b/sound/mips/hal2.c
index 30563d9aa5c8..675c3aba794e 100644
--- a/sound/mips/hal2.c
+++ b/sound/mips/hal2.c
@@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ static int hal2_create(struct snd_card *card, struct snd_hal2 **rchip)
 	struct hpc3_regs *hpc3 = hpc3c0;
 	int err;
 
-	hal2 = kzalloc(sizeof(struct snd_hal2), GFP_KERNEL);
+	hal2 = kzalloc(sizeof(*hal2), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!hal2)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.15.0