linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] misc/apds9802als: Improve a size determination in apds9802als

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Date:   Sun, 7 Jan 2018 22:03:56 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] misc/apds9802als: Improve a size determination in
 apds9802als_probe()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 21:48:50 +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>
---
 drivers/misc/apds9802als.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/apds9802als.c b/drivers/misc/apds9802als.c
index fa548796c92e..acf467666737 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/apds9802als.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/apds9802als.c
@@ -228,9 +228,8 @@ static int apds9802als_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 			     const struct i2c_device_id *id)
 {
 	int res;
-	struct als_data *data;
+	struct als_data *data = kzalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct als_data), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!data)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.15.1