[PATCH 2/2] video: s3c-fb: Improve a size determination in s3c_fb_probe()

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SF Markus Elfring <hidden>
Date
2017-11-26 14:17:46
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SF Markus Elfring, 2017-11-26
From: Markus Elfring <redacted>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 15:03:03 +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 <redacted>
---
 drivers/video/fbdev/s3c-fb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/s3c-fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/s3c-fb.c
index 0914c973cbd9..8c7623d63eb1 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/s3c-fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/s3c-fb.c
@@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ static int s3c_fb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	sfb = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct s3c_fb), GFP_KERNEL);
+	sfb = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*sfb), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sfb)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
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2.15.0
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