[PATCH V2 04/20] dmaengine/amba-pl08x: pass (*ptr) to sizeof() instead of (struct xyz)

Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar at st.com
Mon Aug 1 05:37:14 EDT 2011


As mentioned in Documentation/CodingStyle,

The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
   p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);

The alternative form where struct name is spelled out hurts readability and
introduces an opportunity for a bug when the pointer variable type is changed
but the corresponding sizeof that is passed to a memory allocator is not.

This patch replaces (struct xyz) with *ptr at several occurrences in driver.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at st.com>
---
 drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c b/drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c
index 8e2056b..01c2f50 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/amba-pl08x.c
@@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@ static int pl08x_prep_channel_resources(struct pl08x_dma_chan *plchan,
 static struct pl08x_txd *pl08x_get_txd(struct pl08x_dma_chan *plchan,
 	unsigned long flags)
 {
-	struct pl08x_txd *txd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pl08x_txd), GFP_NOWAIT);
+	struct pl08x_txd *txd = kzalloc(sizeof(*txd), GFP_NOWAIT);
 
 	if (txd) {
 		dma_async_tx_descriptor_init(&txd->tx, &plchan->chan);
@@ -1690,7 +1690,7 @@ static int pl08x_dma_init_virtual_channels(struct pl08x_driver_data *pl08x,
 	 * to cope with that situation.
 	 */
 	for (i = 0; i < channels; i++) {
-		chan = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pl08x_dma_chan), GFP_KERNEL);
+		chan = kzalloc(sizeof(*chan), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!chan) {
 			dev_err(&pl08x->adev->dev,
 				"%s no memory for channel\n", __func__);
@@ -1850,7 +1850,7 @@ static int pl08x_probe(struct amba_device *adev, const struct amba_id *id)
 		return ret;
 
 	/* Create the driver state holder */
-	pl08x = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pl08x_driver_data), GFP_KERNEL);
+	pl08x = kzalloc(sizeof(*pl08x), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pl08x) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out_no_pl08x;
@@ -1929,7 +1929,7 @@ static int pl08x_probe(struct amba_device *adev, const struct amba_id *id)
 	}
 
 	/* Initialize physical channels */
-	pl08x->phy_chans = kmalloc((vd->channels * sizeof(struct pl08x_phy_chan)),
+	pl08x->phy_chans = kmalloc((vd->channels * sizeof(*pl08x->phy_chans)),
 			GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pl08x->phy_chans) {
 		dev_err(&adev->dev, "%s failed to allocate "
-- 
1.7.2.2




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