Subject: [PATCH 2/3] mfd/sm501: Improve a size determination in two functions
From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:15:36 +0100
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:47:03 +0100

Replace the specification of data structures by pointer dereferences
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/mfd/sm501.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mfd/sm501.c b/drivers/mfd/sm501.c
index 7298d6b571a1..d5ab3481794a 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/sm501.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/sm501.c
@@ -1380,10 +1380,9 @@ static int sm501_init_dev(struct sm501_devdata *sm)
 
 static int sm501_plat_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
 {
-	struct sm501_devdata *sm;
 	int ret;
+	struct sm501_devdata *sm = kzalloc(sizeof(*sm), GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	sm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sm501_devdata), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (sm == NULL) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err1;
@@ -1569,10 +1568,9 @@ static struct sm501_platdata sm501_pci_platdata = {
 static int sm501_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *dev,
 				     const struct pci_device_id *id)
 {
-	struct sm501_devdata *sm;
 	int err;
+	struct sm501_devdata *sm = kzalloc(sizeof(*sm), GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	sm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sm501_devdata), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (sm == NULL) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err1;
-- 
2.15.1