[PATCH 3/4] video: udlfb: Improve a size determination in dlfb_alloc_urb_list()

SF Markus Elfring elfring at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Nov 24 20:52:19 UTC 2017


From: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 21:30:37 +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 at users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
index cb2d59ca67a4..059883962698 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/udlfb.c
@@ -1867,7 +1867,7 @@ static int dlfb_alloc_urb_list(struct dlfb_data *dev, int count, size_t size)
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->urbs.list);
 
 	while (i < count) {
-		unode = kzalloc(sizeof(struct urb_node), GFP_KERNEL);
+		unode = kzalloc(sizeof(*unode), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!unode)
 			break;
 		unode->dev = dev;
-- 
2.15.0



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