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[2/2] gpio: timberdale: Improve a size determination in timbgpio_probe()

Message ID df13123f-5c90-03e0-edb6-0ab9751b7aa2@users.sourceforge.net
State New
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Series GPIO-Timberdale: Adjustments for timbgpio_probe() | expand

Commit Message

SF Markus Elfring Feb. 10, 2018, 8:33 p.m. UTC 
From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:13:28 +0100

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/gpio/gpio-timberdale.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Linus Walleij Feb. 22, 2018, 2:15 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 9:33 PM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:13:28 +0100
>
> 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>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-timberdale.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-timberdale.c
index ff155e437210..6520a8475910 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-timberdale.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-timberdale.c
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@  static int timbgpio_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	tgpio = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct timbgpio), GFP_KERNEL);
+	tgpio = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*tgpio), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!tgpio)
 		return -EINVAL;