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[4/7,media] Hexium Gemini: Improve a size determination in hexium_attach()

Message ID e9295510-08e7-341b-8117-26d1e5a664af@users.sourceforge.net (mailing list archive)
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SF Markus Elfring Sept. 3, 2017, 8:34 p.m. UTC 
From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 19:51:46 +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/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c b/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c
index 694b70fa3baf..a0fcf8150291 100644
--- a/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_gemini.c
@@ -260,5 +260,5 @@  static int hexium_attach(struct saa7146_dev *dev, struct saa7146_pci_extension_d
 
 	DEB_EE("\n");
 
-	hexium = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hexium), GFP_KERNEL);
+	hexium = kzalloc(sizeof(*hexium), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!hexium)