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[2/5] radeon_backlight: Improve a size determination in radeonfb_bl_init()

Message ID a1b1f11e-082e-841a-565e-bcf67f5cf15f@users.sourceforge.net (mailing list archive)
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SF Markus Elfring Nov. 27, 2017, 9:25 p.m. UTC 
From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 21:30:06 +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@users.sourceforge.net>
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 drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_backlight.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_backlight.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_backlight.c
index ce5b22d710b3..78c36c8d5e57 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_backlight.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@  void radeonfb_bl_init(struct radeonfb_info *rinfo)
 		return;
 #endif
 
-	pdata = kmalloc(sizeof(struct radeon_bl_privdata), GFP_KERNEL);
+	pdata = kmalloc(sizeof(*pdata), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pdata)
 		goto error;