linux-kernel - Re: [3/3] powernv/pci: Improve a size determination in pnv_pci_init_ioda

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Message-Id: <40582V075Xz9sZC@ozlabs.org>
Date:   Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:15:29 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>,
        Alistair Popple <alistair@...ple.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>,
        Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Russell Currey <ruscur@...sell.cc>
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [3/3] powernv/pci: Improve a size determination in pnv_pci_init_ioda_phb()

On Tue, 2017-10-17 at 15:40:17 UTC, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 17:18:10 +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>
> Reviewed-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a0828cf57acce9bf941539e1f633e9

cheers