Re: [PATCH 2/3] mfd/omap-usb-tll: Improve a size determination in usbtll_omap_probe()

From: Lee Jones
Date: Mon Jan 22 2018 - 10:50:17 EST


On Mon, 15 Jan 2018, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 13:43:53 +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>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c b/drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c
> index 7945efa0152e..c8b4ad40910a 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/omap-usb-tll.c
> @@ -220,8 +220,7 @@ static int usbtll_omap_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> int i, ver;
>
> dev_dbg(dev, "starting TI HSUSB TLL Controller\n");
> -

Keep the space between.

> - tll = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct usbtll_omap), GFP_KERNEL);
> + tll = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*tll), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!tll)
> return -ENOMEM;
>

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