linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 08/11] rtc: rx8010: prefer sizeof(*val) over sizeof(struct type_of

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Date:   Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:04:43 +0200
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>
Cc:     linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 08/11] rtc: rx8010: prefer sizeof(*val) over sizeof(struct type_of_val)

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>

Using the size of the variable is preferred over using the size of its
type when allocating memory. Convert the call to devm_kzalloc() in
probe().

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-rx8010.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-rx8010.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-rx8010.c
index e401d8ed0e19..0665878e8843 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-rx8010.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-rx8010.c
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ static int rx8010_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 		return -EIO;
 	}
 
-	rx8010 = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct rx8010_data), GFP_KERNEL);
+	rx8010 = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*rx8010), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!rx8010)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
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