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[6/7,media] Hexium Orion: Improve a size determination in hexium_probe()

Message ID f98489bb-88c0-b16d-8f0e-31212e243634@users.sourceforge.net (mailing list archive)
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SF Markus Elfring Sept. 3, 2017, 8:36 p.m. UTC 
From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 20:00:17 +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/pci/saa7146/hexium_orion.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_orion.c b/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_orion.c
index 72fac6a8494a..187e072a3697 100644
--- a/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_orion.c
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/saa7146/hexium_orion.c
@@ -219,5 +219,5 @@  static int hexium_probe(struct saa7146_dev *dev)
 		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
-	hexium = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hexium), GFP_KERNEL);
+	hexium = kzalloc(sizeof(*hexium), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!hexium)