linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] video: ARM CLCD: Improve a size determination in clcdfb

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Message-id: <3181596.jONtYT21fI@amdc3058>
Date:   Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:16:58 +0200
From:   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] video: ARM CLCD: Improve a size determination in
 clcdfb_probe()

On Tuesday, December 05, 2017 06:13:33 PM SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 17:53:19 +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>

Patch queued for 4.17, thanks.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics