From: Markus Elfring <redacted>
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 13:44:06 +0100

The variable "pl" was declared and immediately assigned a return value
from a function call in a separate statement.

* Let us express the desired variable initialisation directly.

* Avoid the repetition of the data type specification for the
  involved memory allocation according to the Linux coding
  style convention.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <redacted>
---
 drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c
index e0b173d..3f3842f 100644
--- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c
+++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_parameters.c

@@ -200,9 +200,8 @@ free_param:
 int iscsi_create_default_params(struct iscsi_param_list **param_list_ptr)
 {
 	struct iscsi_param *param;
-	struct iscsi_param_list *pl;
+	struct iscsi_param_list *pl = kzalloc(sizeof(*pl), GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	pl = kzalloc(sizeof(struct iscsi_param_list), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pl) {
 		pr_err("Unable to allocate memory for"
 				" struct iscsi_param_list.\n");

-- 
2.6.3