[PATCH 3/3] mtd/ftl: Improve another size determination in ftl_add_mtd()

SF Markus Elfring elfring at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Jan 12 02:38:06 PST 2017


From: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 11:18:59 +0100

Replace the specification of a data type 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 at users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/mtd/ftl.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ftl.c b/drivers/mtd/ftl.c
index 7af23110be6e..70d583aa44ad 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ftl.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ftl.c
@@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ static void ftl_add_mtd(struct mtd_blktrans_ops *tr, struct mtd_info *mtd)
 {
 	partition_t *partition;
 
-	partition = kzalloc(sizeof(partition_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+	partition = kzalloc(sizeof(*partition), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!partition)
 		return;
 
-- 
2.11.0




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