From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 21:30:38 +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.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/as102_fe.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/as102_fe.c 
b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/as102_fe.c
index 1fb4ab21d786..b1c84ee914f0 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/as102_fe.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/as102_fe.c
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ struct dvb_frontend *as102_attach(const char *name,
        struct as102_state *state;
        struct dvb_frontend *fe;
 
-       state = kzalloc(sizeof(struct as102_state), GFP_KERNEL);
+       state = kzalloc(sizeof(*state), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!state)
                return NULL;
 
-- 
2.14.1

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