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[4/6,media] cx24116: Improve a size determination in cx24116_attach()

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SF Markus Elfring Aug. 30, 2017, 7:22 a.m. UTC 
From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 08:15:33 +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>
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 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24116.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24116.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24116.c
index 54f09a5a5075..74d610207bf2 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24116.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24116.c
@@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@  struct dvb_frontend *cx24116_attach(const struct cx24116_config *config,
 	dprintk("%s\n", __func__);
 
 	/* allocate memory for the internal state */
-	state = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cx24116_state), GFP_KERNEL);
+	state = kzalloc(sizeof(*state), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (state == NULL)
 		goto error1;