From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757806AbdEKQQT (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 May 2017 12:16:19 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:59335 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752099AbdEKQPx (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 May 2017 12:15:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] vmbus: Improve a size determination in vmbus_device_create() From: SF Markus Elfring To: devel@linuxdriverproject.org, Haiyang Zhang , "K. Y. Srinivasan" , Stephen Hemminger Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org References: Message-ID: <22c8886f-a38c-23ab-9277-ccccf86b1801@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 18:15:46 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:CrrRctnJd9tnSniXpS/Lse0KKBytgb+WmoHpUGER1OADO1P3eqR +OMplMi6mfaJJqVujQkFTgUW3ne3eHaSzlIVpBDz178YL8q/CqwoAeCDFP48iUbVlIkilav n0RHrSC2LSGxZ/uEvM82Cw6WMmlyljFhV6b+wxQIxLuGoi1YDU/FAdpWxX3VkE8BiDdrCu0 FS8C9DxjX121r9qjEP9dQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:RkFbYKb5fjo=:Xg70zkzFUP4FyiIRkH+nOu 7QPuAcLa7LgvHKsPSEmIf7s/jox8hPLk10XkX8h++UsTzCOGgK+m7ED11vZdIi9Irr3tLKt1O YEMMAVI3VMs/xLyxdXi+PS0PjIJMvijfGQrBqKkb8kRqd61Hkre6NAdyaLJrq4LRZxUH8E4CU 5cF1p4M5VPjG6RfdaktGnSoxWDw2CkaU2VpCASAmYpAy0akPNve2zqzPDzwUCuRRKnkvossS9 fdvZvZ2osoLuhfiKNEZyXgJ1TD8T6aj91xv5a1TDnTzCxXnQoIT/qGJ74qyk/J50qV3AANf7m FtYwvV8KJQ6rN7MACC3M/qjRsc8PluyKGHDaixb2ka8Ks40/+9B4SvEkZIaHUVBqur85H4IHS mG+bm8EbC/YL3ZbaTRjnO5hBYiNeZoFCBvjkxta+KVPddR2GIJ4sor5319mipxHzNzIQGzp1Z P0kwYFUfZC2kTDa+WGvP0mjTYpZcb4oBS00fCvy9UURj6hMYrkLnTvZkaZm+l3bYiSivKNfUV 2pcdkxG1MQXbW8a72cO9NF6EMEHy+i5UNUkoeqlh1vbo9Euzf8ht65+5oHhIAhT71dO5tG2F3 Adf1k6M/Pm9zpMDavwcE00OXqx57mEb11nc4Hu3Npp9gfR3bL/xLkXDFAjxQzFDJ7pju0llhX DyGPp9tIfYcefGq+Fe3bD9mtrDzSS/XnDc+Rm7YC4xjBOnOGa/l91GaMnVVZT82AZ0q5zxi5N iFRQA9G8Hn/K4WFHZPc3Zdf7yWo0AZKeSYTE1ogB1I1Jhy+qD/qtlJFGGIE/+WQ3moZ68crvC 5sutmrp Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Markus Elfring Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 17:30:10 +0200 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. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring --- drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c index 0087b49095eb..6802d74f162c 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c +++ b/drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c @@ -1145,5 +1145,5 @@ struct hv_device *vmbus_device_create(const uuid_le *type, { struct hv_device *child_device_obj; - child_device_obj = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hv_device), GFP_KERNEL); + child_device_obj = kzalloc(sizeof(*child_device_obj), GFP_KERNEL); if (!child_device_obj) { -- 2.12.3