Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 1 author, 2018-02-06

[PATCH 2/3] HID: lenovo: Improve a size determination in lenovo_probe_tpkbd()

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From: SF Markus Elfring <hidden>
Date: 2018-02-06 16:18:09
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Subsystem: hid core layer, lenovo hid drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Jiri Kosina, Benjamin Tissoires, Derek J. Clark, Mark Pearson, Linus Torvalds

From: Markus Elfring <redacted>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 16:52:58 +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/hid/hid-lenovo.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-lenovo.c b/drivers/hid/hid-lenovo.c
index 549b84d01b46..f863b94f3476 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-lenovo.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-lenovo.c
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ static int lenovo_probe_tpkbd(struct hid_device *hdev)
 		hid_warn(hdev, "Could not create sysfs group: %d\n", ret);
 
 	data_pointer = devm_kzalloc(&hdev->dev,
-				    sizeof(struct lenovo_drvdata_tpkbd),
+				    sizeof(*data_pointer),
 				    GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (data_pointer == NULL) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.16.1
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