linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 4/6] staging: rtl8192e: Pass a pointer as an argument to sizeof() instead of struct

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Message-Id: <1489702341-14448-5-git-send-email-sunil.m@techveda.org>
Date:   Fri, 17 Mar 2017 03:42:19 +0530
From:   sunil.m@...hveda.org
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        karthiknishu@...oo.com, Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@...hveda.org>
Subject: [PATCH v4 4/6] staging: rtl8192e: Pass a pointer as an argument to sizeof() instead of struct

From: Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@...hveda.org>

Replaced sizeof(struct foo) into sizeof(*ptr), found by checkpatch.pl

Signed-off-by: Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@...hveda.org>
---
Changes for v4:

- Dropped two patches from the series, as they were not adding significant value
  suggested by Dan Carpenter.
  staging: rtl8192e: Fix coding style, this was fixing line over 80 characters.
  staging: rtl8192e: Fix unbalanced braces
- Resending the whole series as requested by Greg K-H
- Patches were tested and built on next-20170310 and staging-testing

Changes for v3:

- Split earlier patches into multiple commits for easy review
  as suggested by Greg K-H
- Modified description for better readability
- Rebased on top of next-20170310
- Patches were tested and built on next-20170310 and staging-testing
  as suggested by Greg K-H, no errors reported

Changes for v2:

- new patch addition to the series
- Rebased on top of next-20170306
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
index 4f4cd07..999af05 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ static void _rtl92e_init_priv_variable(struct net_device *dev)
 
 	priv->card_type = PCI;
 
-	priv->pFirmware = vzalloc(sizeof(struct rt_firmware));
+	priv->pFirmware = vzalloc(sizeof(*priv->pFirmware));
 	if (!priv->pFirmware)
 		return;
 
-- 
1.9.1