Subject: [PATCH 2/2] macintosh/rack-meter: Improve a size determination in
 rackmeter_probe()
From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:40:57 +0100
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:26:52 +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/macintosh/rack-meter.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c b/drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c
index 0796b74174d4..800fc6822ad8 100644
--- a/drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c
+++ b/drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static int rackmeter_probe(struct macio_dev* mdev,
 	}
 
 	/* Create and initialize our instance data */
-	rm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rackmeter), GFP_KERNEL);
+	rm = kzalloc(sizeof(*rm), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (rm == NULL) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto bail_release;
-- 
2.15.1