[PATCH v2] video: ssd1307fb: Improve a size determination in ssd1307fb_probe()

From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
	Bastian Stender <bst@pengutronix.de>, Jyri Sarha <jsarha@ti.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
	linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] video: ssd1307fb: Improve a size determination in ssd1307fb_probe()
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 19:34:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2fc8e5c-e4d3-51da-451c-be70e0d3fef0@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2091464.qzRHS0Wsad@amdc3058>

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 19:27:28 +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 <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
---

v2:
This update suggestion was rebased on source files from the software
"Linux next-20180105".

 drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
index f599520374dd..6439231f2db2 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
@@ -628,7 +628,8 @@ static int ssd1307fb_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 		goto fb_alloc_error;
 	}
 
-	ssd1307fb_defio = devm_kzalloc(&client->dev, sizeof(struct fb_deferred_io), GFP_KERNEL);
+	ssd1307fb_defio = devm_kzalloc(&client->dev, sizeof(*ssd1307fb_defio),
+				       GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ssd1307fb_defio) {
 		dev_err(&client->dev, "Couldn't allocate deferred io.\n");
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.15.1
