[PATCH 2/2] Input: wm831x-on: Improve a size determination in wm831x_on_probe()

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SF Markus Elfring <hidden>
Date
2018-01-24 21:22:43
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SF Markus Elfring, 2018-01-24
From: Markus Elfring <redacted>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:58:42 +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/input/misc/wm831x-on.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/wm831x-on.c b/drivers/input/misc/wm831x-on.c
index 06f5c4857a0c..0d8f7a11f63d 100644
--- a/drivers/input/misc/wm831x-on.c
+++ b/drivers/input/misc/wm831x-on.c
@@ -75,8 +75,7 @@ static int wm831x_on_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	int irq = wm831x_irq(wm831x, platform_get_irq(pdev, 0));
 	int ret;
 
-	wm831x_on = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct wm831x_on),
-				 GFP_KERNEL);
+	wm831x_on = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*wm831x_on), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!wm831x_on)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.16.1
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