RE: [PATCH 2/2] ASoC: da7213: Improve a size determination in da7213_i2c_probe()

From: Adam Thomson
Date: Fri Nov 24 2017 - 06:49:16 EST


On 23 November 2017 17:34, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 18:15:30 +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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Adam Thomson <Adam.Thomson.Opensource@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> sound/soc/codecs/da7213.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/da7213.c b/sound/soc/codecs/da7213.c
> index d1b77a0e3b74..b2b4e90fc02a 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/codecs/da7213.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/da7213.c
> @@ -1853,8 +1853,7 @@ static int da7213_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c,
> struct da7213_priv *da7213;
> int ret;
>
> - da7213 = devm_kzalloc(&i2c->dev, sizeof(struct da7213_priv),
> - GFP_KERNEL);
> + da7213 = devm_kzalloc(&i2c->dev, sizeof(*da7213), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!da7213)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> --
> 2.15.0