linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] [media] s5p-mfc: Improve a size determination in s5p_mfc_alloc

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Date:   Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:16:54 +0200
From:   Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
        Jeongtae Park <jtp.park@...sung.com>,
        Kamil Debski <kamil@...as.org>,
        Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] [media] s5p-mfc: Improve a size determination in
 s5p_mfc_alloc_memdev()

On 09/08/2017 10:52 PM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> 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>

Acked-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>