From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 21:35:18 +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/atm/adummy.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/atm/adummy.c b/drivers/atm/adummy.c
index 94b73ddfb731..1ef2d8ee8d67 100644
--- a/drivers/atm/adummy.c
+++ b/drivers/atm/adummy.c
@@ -146,9 +146,7 @@ static int __init adummy_init(void)
        int err = 0;
 
        printk(KERN_ERR "adummy: version %s\n", DRV_VERSION);
-
-       adummy_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct adummy_dev),
-                                                  GFP_KERNEL);
+       adummy_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*adummy_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!adummy_dev) {
                err = -ENOMEM;
                goto out;
-- 
2.14.2

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