video: sm501fb: Improve a size determination in sm501fb_probe()
authorMarkus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:24:18 +0000 (12:24 +0200)
committerBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:24:18 +0000 (12:24 +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>
Cc: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Cc: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@gmail.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
drivers/video/fbdev/sm501fb.c

index 6f0a195..dde52d0 100644 (file)
@@ -1932,8 +1932,7 @@ static int sm501fb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
        int ret;
 
        /* allocate our framebuffers */
-
-       info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sm501fb_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+       info = kzalloc(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!info) {
                dev_err(dev, "failed to allocate state\n");
                return -ENOMEM;