linux-kernel - [PATCH 7/9] [media] tm6000: Improve a size determination in dvb

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2017 09:57:43 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...sung.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>,
        Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@...il.com>,
        Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        David Härdeman <david@...deman.nu>,
        Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Santosh Kumar Singh <kumar.san1093@...il.com>,
        Sean Young <sean@...s.org>,
        Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@...wei.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 7/9] [media] tm6000: Improve a size determination in
 dvb_init()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 07:33:24 +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/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c b/drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c
index 2bc584f75f87..855874134fcf 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-dvb.c
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ static int dvb_init(struct tm6000_core *dev)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	dvb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct tm6000_dvb), GFP_KERNEL);
+	dvb = kzalloc(sizeof(*dvb), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!dvb)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.14.1