[PATCH 2/3] char/bsr: Improve a size determination in bsr_add_node()

From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Sun Oct 15 2017 - 16:09:46 EST


From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 21:25:46 +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.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/bsr.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/bsr.c b/drivers/char/bsr.c
index 865eb457e539..d0597dfa4d88 100644
--- a/drivers/char/bsr.c
+++ b/drivers/char/bsr.c
@@ -197,8 +197,7 @@ static int bsr_add_node(struct device_node *bn)
num_bsr_devs = bsr_bytes_len / sizeof(u32);

for (i = 0 ; i < num_bsr_devs; i++) {
- struct bsr_dev *cur = kzalloc(sizeof(struct bsr_dev),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct bsr_dev *cur = kzalloc(sizeof(*cur), GFP_KERNEL);
struct resource res;
int result;

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2.14.2