Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipack: Improve a size determination in ipack_bus_register()

From: Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez
Date: Mon May 15 2017 - 01:21:10 EST


Hello Markus,

Thanks for the patches!

Series is,

Acked-by: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez <siglesias@xxxxxxxxxx>

Greg, Would you mind picking this patch series through your char-misc
tree?

Sam

On Sat, 2017-05-13 at 10:56 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 10:37:06 +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 <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Âdrivers/ipack/ipack.c | 2 +-
> Â1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/ipack/ipack.c b/drivers/ipack/ipack.c
> index 575c4f29e0f7..a1e07a77d4e6 100644
> --- a/drivers/ipack/ipack.c
> +++ b/drivers/ipack/ipack.c
> @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ struct ipack_bus_device
> *ipack_bus_register(struct device *parent, int slots,
> Â int bus_nr;
> Â struct ipack_bus_device *bus;
> Â
> - bus = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ipack_bus_device), GFP_KERNEL);
> + bus = kzalloc(sizeof(*bus), GFP_KERNEL);
> Â if (!bus)
> Â return NULL;
> Â

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