diff mbox

[2/3,media] mb86a20s: Improve a size determination in mb86a20s_attach()

Message ID 5b72d4ab-0bcb-27ab-6240-18d251f49e6c@users.sourceforge.net (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
Headers show

Commit Message

SF Markus Elfring Aug. 31, 2017, 7:57 p.m. UTC 
From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:13:26 +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@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff mbox

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c
index 340984100aec..ba7a433dd424 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mb86a20s.c
@@ -2071,7 +2071,7 @@  struct dvb_frontend *mb86a20s_attach(const struct mb86a20s_config *config,
 	dev_dbg(&i2c->dev, "%s called.\n", __func__);
 
 	/* allocate memory for the internal state */
-	state = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mb86a20s_state), GFP_KERNEL);
+	state = kzalloc(sizeof(*state), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!state)
 		goto error;