[PATCH 2/5] radeon_backlight: Improve a size determination in radeonfb_bl_init()
SF Markus Elfring
elfring at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Nov 27 21:25:38 UTC 2017
From: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 21:30:06 +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/aty/radeon_backlight.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_backlight.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_backlight.c
index ce5b22d710b3..78c36c8d5e57 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/radeon_backlight.c
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ void radeonfb_bl_init(struct radeonfb_info *rinfo)
return;
#endif
- pdata = kmalloc(sizeof(struct radeon_bl_privdata), GFP_KERNEL);
+ pdata = kmalloc(sizeof(*pdata), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pdata)
goto error;
--
2.15.0
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